[CentOS] Script to kill dictionary spam attacks

Sun Mar 26 13:47:18 UTC 2006
Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>

On 3/26/06, Chris Mason (Lists) <lists at masonc.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have a script that will notice a Rumplestiltskin type spam
> attack (where they try every name possible) and drop the sending into a
> block list?

Denyhosts is what you're looking for. It's in dag's repository.
Alternately you could just move ssh off port 22 and they'll all go
away.


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