[ale] any suggestions on an automated method for blocking repeated failed ssh login attempts?

[Michael Trausch]

On Dec 23, 2010 3:30 PM, "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> Port knocking, moving the port, and all that other noise is just
> avoiding really dealing with the security of your setup.  If you are

Indeed. I have tried at points long ago in the past to move the port to hide
it. It never works. Someone always comes along and does a portscan, sees
that OpenSSH is running on a non-standard port, and goes off with it.

I do block IPs that fail repeatedly, but only to reduce output to the log
files and reduce bandwidth usage in the upstream direction, as my clients
network resources are quite thin.

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