Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Locking out SSH brute-force attacks
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:51:20
Message-Id: 20051005225021.GQ19999@mail.lieber.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Locking out SSH brute-force attacks by "A. Khattri"
1 On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:37:58PM -0400 or thereabouts, A. Khattri wrote:
2 > Im sure this has probably been discussed: anyway to lock out IPs that fail
3 > to login through ssh many many times. Or some way for ssh to temporarily
4 > ignore connections from a specific IP that is brute-forcing ssh?
5
6 This was *just* discussed (extensively) on the gentoo-security mailing
7 list. Please see this thread for more info:
8
9 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.security/2486
10
11 --kurt