[Leaplist] fail2ban

[Jason Boxman]

On 3/8/2010 6:53 PM, Phil Barnett wrote:
> I was looking for a solution to automatically firewall password guessing
> attacks to ssh my server and came across this interesting solution.

The risk is a crafty attacker successfully bans you, should you be 
accessing the host primarily remotely.

Instead, I use OpenSSH AllowUsers and only allow access via keys.


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