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On Sunday 15 November 2009 08:21:55 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:07:28PM -0500, Richard Marza wrote |
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> > Thank you for the information, I did find that denyhost and fail2ban in |
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> > threads but there were issues with it not working properly. Some users |
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> > created custom scripts to get the job done correctly. |
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> Have you considered not allowing password-based logins at all for ssh? |
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> Use RSA keys instead. It's much easier, and much more secure. |
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fail2ban and/or denyhosts is still very useful with key-only auth, even if |
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only to get the spam out of messages and into the iptables logs |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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