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Steve wrote: |
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> Sure, I could use IPtables to block all these bad ports... or... I could |
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> disable password authentication entirely... but I keep thinking that |
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> there has to be something better I can do... any suggestions? |
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I'm using DenyHosts to battle this. It adds the IPs to /etc/hosts.deny |
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after a configurable amount of failed logins. It even downloads an |
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online list of IPs where attacks originate from and uploads attacks to |
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your box to this list too (if you allow it in the configuration). |
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After I installed this, no more brute-forcing :) I used to have |
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thousands per day. |
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http://www.denyhosts.net |
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It's in portage. |
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