On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net> wrote: > > There should be a basic defence that when the password is wrong 'n' > occasions the IP address is blocked automatically and permanently unless > it is specifically allowed in IP Tables. The people who are good at this will make the attempts from many different IPs - and sometimes cycle through a dictionary of different login names too. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com