[LUAU] Handling SSH breakin attempts

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Wed Dec 21 15:21:28 PST 2005


The opposite approach also works:  http://www.portknocking.org/



R. Scott Belford wrote:

> A few weeks ago Clifton and Tim did some unreal python scripting that 
> assessed and dropped ssh brute force break-in attempts.  Watching PUG, 
> the Python Users Group, at work, was impressive.  Along those lines, I 
> just learned of a very nice tool at Sourceforge
>
> fail2ban.sourceforge.net
>
> that can be easily customized to create a drop rule after X amount of 
> break-in attempts.
>
> --scott
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