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James Knott wrote:
Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I see on all machines available on the Internet a permanent login try via ssh with all login names you can imagine (or even not anymore).
I would like to set-up something, that temporary closes access from this IP address for 5 minutes, if a wrong password was provided.
Is something like that or even better available????
A safer method is to use a key, rather than password. That way, no key, no acess.
Still, all these accesses and the resulting error log entries are a nuisance, I block even then. I missed the start of this thread, so here are my 0.02 EUR: the OP is looking for fail2ban, http://fail2ban.sf.net/. There are dozens of other systems with similar functionality; but this is one of the more comprehensive and flexible ones. We use it with great success on several hosted systems. Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany