How to Stop Bruit Force ssh Attempts?

Pat Maddox pergesu at gmail.com
Sat Mar 18 17:52:25 UTC 2006


The best thing you can do is move SSH to another port and disable
password authentication, and use keys instead.

Pat

On 3/18/06, Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
> In my auth log I see alot of bruit force attempts to login via ssh.  Is
> there a way I can have the box automatically kill any tcp/ip
> connectivity to hosts that try and fail a given number of times?  Is
> there a port or something that I can install to give this kind of
> protection.  I'm still kind of a FreeBSD newbie.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Maness
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