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Re: Temporarily Disable IP



Ritesh Raj Sarraf schrieb:
> Hi People,
> 
> On my servers I'm repeatedly seeing unsuccessful ssh login attempts.
> 
> Is there a way to temporarily disable such IPs which fail to authenticate ?

you can use sshd's AllowUsers directive, to disable specific hosts/users
or use /etc/hosts.deny. a firewall will also do. but keep in mind, that
ip-addresses could be spoofed and passwords could be mistyped too.

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