Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Always remember, however, to be careful that this doesn't open you up
to an easy denial-of-service attack. If all somebody has to do is try
to log in a half-dozen times to lock out the IP address they're
connecting from, you may be making it possible for them to attack your
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Carleton Vaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Gene wrote:
> > Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of
> > brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way
> > that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if
> > more than say 5 or
Gene wrote:
Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of
brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that
sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than
say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address,
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erik Norgaard
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:43 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: Gene; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
> Subject: Re: High levels of breakin attempts
>
>
> Ted Mi
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Yes Eric, just write a FAQ answer and post it per the following:
http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html
Thanks for volunteering!
I'll take a look at it, but on the documentation list there was recently
a discussion as to what to do with the FAQ: Merge it into the ha
2:12 AM
> To: Gene
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
> Subject: Re: High levels of breakin attempts
>
>
> Gene wrote:
> > Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of
> > brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is
> there a way that
Gene wrote:
Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of
brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that
sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than
say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address,
Murray Taylor wrote:
I havent checked forsure but could sysutils/ipa help.
it can 'open/close' firewalls upon certain limit conditions...
The closest thing I have seen is portsentry.
However, portsentry is a different beast. I don't think it "knows" about
attempts to log in via ssh.
In other w
> Gene wrote:
>
> > Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high
> level of
> > brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way
> > that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if
> > more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a
Gene wrote:
Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of
brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way
that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if
more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip
address,
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