tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I was looking and at playing around with /etc/ssh/sshd_conf. What I
want to do is
after say 5 or so failed attempts to ssh, I want it to block ssh at
least for a time
(to keep people from hacking in). I uncommented anything that looked
like it
might do that, restarted sshd (even rebooted). Then I tried to ssh
several times
making up things for password: banana, orange, lemon, apple, etc. (the
real password
is nothing like that). I got through all the fruits and several
vegetables and it still
wasn't denied. When I finally entered the correct password it let me in
right away.
What is the correct way to block ssh attempts after several failed ones?
Rick Stevens gave the answer[1] to that a few days ago in a thread I had
started. It's an IPTables based solution.
[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-August/msg01222.html
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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)
Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Linux 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 x86_64
