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

[Always Learning]

On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:40 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. I'll add that to the list to do.

> >> Restricted to a few IP addresses is good; the fewer the better.
> >
> > Currently 3 static IPs.
> 
> <G>

I'm definitely not going to let the b**** get in easily :-)  The
Russians appear the worse with their port 445 scanning. 
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With best regards,

Paul.
England,
EU.