Verily I say unto thee, that Manuel Arostegui Ramirez spake thusly: > El Domingo, 22 de Abril de 2007 02:50, Keith G. Robertson-Turner escribió: >> I have hundreds off ssh attacks every day. Just make sure you have a >> *very* secure password (or don't forward ssh from the router). >> >> I also use "denyhosts" which I've found extremely useful (it's in extras). > That plus some kind of app such as fail2ban to permit only like like 3 attemps > of login Denyhosts already does that. I'll check out fail2ban though, it's always nice to have alternatives. -- K. http://slated.org .---- | I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system, | which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product | is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2> `---- Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5 16:04:39 up 5 days, 13:36, 2 users, load average: 1.33, 1.43, 1.69