jerryk1234 wrote: > > The Internet has become a nasty place - I pine for the days when it was > just universities and networking nerds. People are constantly banging > on my linux box trying to get root. > > I wrote a Perl script that constantly watches for failed login > attempts. It applies a leaky bucket algorithm to each IP with failed > attempts. If enough failed attempts occur in a short enough time ( > causing a bucket overflow ), it blacklists the offending IP for a day, > dropping all its packets on the floor at the earliest possible > opportunity. At the present moment, there are 6 IPs blacklisted. > I don't have to write any script for that. Just 'apt-get install fail2ban' and make sure that root login is disabled or limit ssh access with firewall. -- Tomas -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/SM-and-UW-Wont%27-Play-tp27544484p27556739.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
