On Friday 10 August 2007 06:08:38 pm 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? An easy way is to acomplish this, is to install the denyhosts package : $ yum install denyhosts You can configure a lot of settings in the /etc/denyhosts.conf file. best regards Teo Fonrouge
