Re: ssh howto for debian?
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:00:37 +0000
Kevin Philp <kevin@cybercolloids.net> wrote:
> > A good package to install, to help with the brute force attacks is
> > fail2ban.
> >
>
> Even easier and better add the following to your iptables firewall.
> This monitors your connections to the ssh port and drops the
> connection if they try more than 4 connections in 10 minutes. I
> have been using this for a while - works a treat.
"Easier and better" depends on a lot of factors, including a person's
desire to edit, directly, their iptables files. Some use Shorewall
(for which there are other solutions) or another firewall creation
tool. For me, I appreciated the solutions found in fail2ban.
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Raquel
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