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From: Mark <znxster@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening SSHD
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:40:30
Message-Id: 169ffc030610241237p1a79556do5af0be03bec57045@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening SSHD by Andrew Ross
1 On 24/10/06, Andrew Ross <aross@g.o> wrote:
2 > There is an excellent article at
3 > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/187 describing the use of
4 > the "recent" netfilter module in stopping brute-force ssh attacks at the
5 > firewall level.
6
7 The negative with this approach is that it affects ALL ssh
8 connections, including valid ones. If a known user logs in correctly 4
9 times in too short a time, they too are banned.
10
11 Mark
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Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening SSHD Daniel Black <dragonheart@g.o>