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

[Van Loggins]

> > for some reason it's erroring out on the do command so it never gets to
> the
> > iptables command.
> >
> > any suggestions, or a better method to do this?
>
> fail2ban works pretty well:
>
> http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>
> - Ryan
> --
>
>> http://prefetch.net
>
>
Fail2ban looks like a great solution. I've downloaded it and all required
rpm packages and installed it, and have started it up.

will monitor to see if it is working tomorrow

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Van
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