Re: SSH Blocking

[Brendan <mailinglist@endosquid.com>]

On Monday 25 April 2005 01:03 pm, Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Nick Miller wrote:
> >   I maintain a couple of exim mail servers on the Internet and I have
> > noticed that a lot of people will try to gain access to these machines
> > by trying multiple SSH logins with all sorts of names. I am wondering if
> > there is an option in SSHD to block an IP after a certain amount of
> > failed login attempts as any user?
> - you should only allow ssh login from ip# that you know about

This is impossible if he wants to log in from anywhere to admin.
It's a nice plan if he is NEVER going to log in from unknown systems.