[SGVLUG] ssh protection - advice desired - thanks

[matti]

Deny host, looks cool!!

the other option would be to white list the IPs/subnets you will be accessing from, and deny the rest using firewall rules.

thanks
matti



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From: Robert Leyva <mrflash818 at geophile.net>
To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 9:29 AM
Subject: [SGVLUG]  ssh protection - advice desired - thanks

Thanks for all the good advice.

robert at pip:~$ sudo aptitude install denyhosts
...
done!

...I'll see how denyhosts does for now, and keep tail-ing my auth.log


http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/denyhosts
http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/index.html

-- 
"Knowledge is Power" -- Sir Francis Bacon

Robert Leyva
mrflash818 at geophile.net
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