For the paranoid firewalling, do both? ;) (adjusting ports to match) On 10/8/05, Scot L. Harris <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 13:50, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > Looking at that perl script gave me an idea, but yet a question. I > > notice there is a line that says something about "Max Retries". Is that > > something that is configurable somewhere, or can be turned on? > > > > I know there have been long discussions about blocking the brute force > > attempts at breakins, but at the time I did not see much need for it. > > Not long after that, I started seeing somewhere between 100 and as high > > as 800 attempts to break in via the sshd. Not that I'm too worried > > about someone guessing a password, but in those numbers, it does take > > some bandwidth. I'd like to see something like Max Retries of 3, so if > > someone tries 3 times to guess the password, or different usernames, it > > would throw their IP/hostname into the /etc/hosts.deny file, > > permanently. BSD does things a bit different, in that the hosts.allow > > does both the allows and the denies, making hosts.deny pretty much > > moot. Given those thoughts, what kind of something is available to do > > just that -- the max retries thingy? > > > > Would you not get the same or better results by moving the sshd port to > something other than the default? Would not have to spend any resources > on tracking IP addresses. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051008/151e4343/attachment-0004.html>