On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:00:37 +0000 Kevin Philp <ke...@cybercolloids.net> wrote:
> > A good package to install, to help with the brute force attacks is > > fail2ban. > > > > Even easier and better add the following to your iptables firewall. > This monitors your connections to the ssh port and drops the > connection if they try more than 4 connections in 10 minutes. I > have been using this for a while - works a treat. "Easier and better" depends on a lot of factors, including a person's desire to edit, directly, their iptables files. Some use Shorewall (for which there are other solutions) or another firewall creation tool. For me, I appreciated the solutions found in fail2ban. -- Raquel http://www.byraquel.com ============================================================ America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. --Jimmy Carter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
