Re: [gentoo-user] SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

Steve schrieb: I can't believe that I'm the only person with this, so it's probably worth asking. I'm one of the (many) people who has opportunists trying usernames and passwords against SSH... while every effort has been made to secure this service by configuration; strong passwords; no ro

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Steve wrote: > I migrated to try using iptables as my firewall and using > blacklist.py - which I got working after some minor config-tweaking. > I'm aware that there is configuration in the blacklist.py script for > BLOCKING_PERIOD - but what I really miss the "blo

[gentoo-user] SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

I can't believe that I'm the only person with this, so it's probably worth asking. I'm one of the (many) people who has opportunists trying usernames and passwords against SSH... while every effort has been made to secure this service by configuration; strong passwords; no root login remotely