[TriLUG] Fw: TALUG: Preventing SSH Dictionary Attacks With DenyHosts

[David McDowell]

Could you share your modification?  I'm curious.  :D  thanks!


On 20 Feb 2006 10:35:20 -0500, jonc <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I've been using DenyHost for awhile now and I love it. I modified it so
> that it deny's all services from any host that attempts the ssh attack.
> Amazingly enough that seems to have also cut down on my virus traffic...
> hmmm could there be a correlation here?
>
> Jon
>
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:26, Kevin Otte wrote:
> > As this topic has come up quite a bit:
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Jason Bechtel <jasonmbechtel at gmail.com> -----
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> > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:47:31 +0000
> > From: Jason Bechtel <jasonmbechtel at gmail.com>
> > To: talug at talug.org
> > Subject: TALUG: Preventing SSH Dictionary Attacks With DenyHosts
> > Reply-To: talug at talug.org
> >
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> > The comments to this Howto are as good as the article...  The upshot:
> > There are lots of ways to do it.  Are you using at least one?
> >
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/preventing_ssh_dictionary_attacks_with_denyhosts
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