Get DenyHosts it's a program that tracks log in attempts, if the account/password is wrong a certain amount of times it will put it in /etc/host.deny file and block them from attempting. It works great, just don't forget your password with out a keyboard and monitor connected directly to the box (before you set it up to ignore certain ip's/users) or it'll be curtains for you!!
"Let ye without segmentation fault cast the first int!" Korey Fort -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chad Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:55 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ssh attack On 12/29/05, Matt Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This of course won't happen behind a properly configured firewall, correct? > > Darren Hart wrote: > > > I'm sure nobody here is dumb enough to do this, but since I was, > > thought I'd pass the word. > > > > There is an ssh attack going around with a brute force login using > > 2187 different username/password pairs, one such pair happens to be: > > > > mythtv:mythtv > > > _______________________________________________ MythTV shouldn't be on the external network anyway, IMHO. I grab my listings on a seperate box that is directly connected, it also hosts my mysql db for myth, but myth isn't directly connected (it's actually completely blocked when I do a port scan, and I've got un-necessary services shut off/uninstalled). Security can't be a sometimes thing, otherwise you end up a 45 year old billionaire. Chad _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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