If you're just tired of the noise, consider moving SSH to a different port. It provides no greater security but helps with some of the annoyance.
-HKS On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 05:33:41PM +0000, Charlie Clark wrote: >> I have noticed that people constantly try to brute force sshd on my >> openbsd box, on my server I use fail2ban to prevent this and wondered if >> there is a similar solution for openbsd. > > Yes, but why would you want to do that? It doesn't help in any real > sense - weak passwords are still weak and may still fall to a > distributed attack. and strong passwords or keys are pretty much > impossible to guess anyway. > > Meanwhile, it's at least a little complex, takes some time to set up, > and has nasty failure modes. > > Joachim
