I just saw this link on slashdot. It is about brute force attacks. I don't know if this is going
to help but I thought that I would bring it up.
http://www.whitedust.net/article/27/Recent%20SSH%20Brute-Force%20Attacks/
william
--- Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, R.G. Mayhue wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 16 July 2005 03:19 pm, Eben King wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Logan Tygart wrote:
> > > > Just set up your /etc/hosts.deny man hosts.deny will
> > > > help in that regard.
> > >
> > > OK, in /etc/hosts.deny I put
> > >
> > > ssh : ALL
> >
> > sshd:ALL
>
> Cool, that works.
>
> > > The services as used in /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} are those listed in
> > > /etc/services, which are not necessarily the daemon names, right?
> >
> > Yes, it is the daemon name.
>
> With or without any "in." prefix?
>
> > BTW you do not need to restart the service. The changes will be seen
> > immediately by daemons compiled with tcpwrappers support (tcpd).
>
> Noted.
>
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