You wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for an app/script which can monitor for failed ssh logins,
> and block using IPTables for $time after $number of failed logins (an
> exclusion list would be handy as well) so that I can put a quick stop
> to these niggly brute-force ssh "attacks" I seem to be getting more and
> more often.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks, Jeremy B

It's a bad idea trying to automatically drop any $EVILATTEMPT imho, 
because worst case scenario would be excluding valid users from 
dynIP-ascends / dialup users. One could even try to DOS You by faking 
source IPs etc.

A better strategy would be

1.) disabling root-access in sshd-conf and defining valid users. (General 
advise.)

2.) setting up a "bastion host" (preferably minimal installation, as 
"naked" as "stripped down" could be). To minimize single point of failure 
risks one could add / use some more hosts, preferably in different 
subnets.

3.) giving that host/those hosts exclusive access to sshd via hosts.access 
while denying everbody else via hosts.deny.

No automatisms, plain simple, predictible - while "intransparent" enough 
for the $EVILGUYS.

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Andreas Waschbuesch, GAUniversity KG MA FNZ FK01
eMail: awaschb@...

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