Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

[Robert Huff]

Leo L. Schwab writes:

>  	A little Googling revealed a couple of potentially useful
>  tools: 'sshit' and 'bruteblock', both of which notice repeated
>  login attempts from a given IP address and blackhole it in the
>  firewall.

	There's also "denyhosts".  I found the configuration annoying
(need to correctly modify too many files) but once it's running it
works for me.



				Robert Huff