Re: [suse-security] Detecting Brute-Force and Dictionary attacks

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 10:49, Shashi Kanth Boddula wrote:

Please , anyone knows any third party security tool or any opensource security tool which solves my problem ? I use denyhosts for this: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

It watches the logfiles for failed remote login attempts and after a configurable number of failures (different for root, other accounts and non-existent accounts) it adds the attacking ip address to hosts.deny, and sends you and email telling you what it's done. -- Phil Driscoll