On 2020-03-11 21:39:52, Thomas Koeller wrote: > Hi, > > sifting through my system's logs, I noticed many break-in attempts by > rogue ssh clients trying long lists of common passwords. For some time > now I pondered different approaches to counter these, but could not come > up with a solution that really satisfied me. This sounds much like what fail2ban does already. Have you given that a try? Mike -- Mike Mattice mailto: mike at mattice dot org 4096R/88E60DDD print B148 B5B8 B7E9 10CF 6150 442A 655F E1FE 88E6 0DDD _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev