Re: Possible hack attempt?

[marcel <marcels@luon.net>]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 08:59 -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 00:55 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> > I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall.  I 
> > found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack
> > against 
> > me.  Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here?
> 
> Like someone else said, nothing special. Assuming your sshd and
> passwords are configured correctly, they won't get in.
> 
> I got so many of them, though, that my log filled the partition. So I
> wrote a little shell script that checks for this frequently, and blocks
> the naughty IP(s) for a few days. 

Or you could write an iptables rule for it. 

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marcel <marcels@luon.net>