Blocking SSH access based on bad logins?

[Denis D]

have you tried fail2ban?

http://www.fail2ban.org/

On 25 August 2015 at 15:16, Jaime Kikpole <jkikpole at cairodurham.org> wrote:

> I've noticed a number of SSH login attempts for the username "admin"
> on my FreeBSD systems.  None of them have a username of "admin".  So I
> was wondering if there was a way (even via a port) to tell the system,
> "If an IP tries to login as 'admin', block that IP."
>
> I'm already using SSHGuard to block certain obvious attempts to break
> in.  I'm fine with altering its configs or adding/switching to a new
> port.
>
> Thanks.
>
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