Kirk,
If you don't mind, could you let me know where that script is? I'm
seeing the same thing -- kiddies trying to log in. I use something
similar, but manual entry on my mail server that is in a co-lo site
running FreeBSD. Here at home, I thought I'd be pretty well protected
behind the router, but I have to have the ssh port open, and I'm seeing
hundreds of attempts.
Thanks...
Sam
Kirk Bocek wrote:
> Good question Alex. However, I've never studied the scripts that
> 'script kiddies' use and so have no answer.
>
> Part of what has prompted this change is the recent surge of
> brute-force password attacks. From the timing of the password
> attempts, it's clear that these are script driven.
>
> I found a perl script that watches for failed logins. After a
> configurable number, the script enters the IP address into
> /etc/hosts.deny. After a configurable number of days, the script then
> removes the IP address.
>
> What I see in /var/log/secure is a whole series of 'Invalid user'
> messages followed by 'Failed password for invalid user' messages.
> These will then, because of the script, be terminated by a 'refused
> connect from' message when the address is entered into hosts.deny.
>
> My point in all this is that I only ever see *one* 'refused connect'
> message. So at least for this script, it gives up when it can't
> connect anymore.
>
> Kirk Bocek
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Snowman