[CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Always Learning wrote:
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> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:27 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
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>> Security through obscurity doesn't work.
>
> It certainly helps defeat most potential intruders but not the most
> determined.  IPtables does help too.

We also run fail2ban at work. Very nice, installs (along with shorewall),
and creates a temporary blacklist, blocking an IP that's tried five, I
think, times to break in. All configurable, btw.
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>> Restricted to a few IP addresses is good; the fewer the better.
>
> Currently 3 static IPs.

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