Re: ssh brute force attacks

"Wesley J. Landaker" <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:33:12 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.nmlug
Organization icecavern.net
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Saturday, January 29, 2011 10:10:06 Peter Espen wrote:
> In addition, I wrote a script that's in crontab and it examines auth.log
> and automatically blocks the offending originating IP address via
> iptables.

You may want to consider using fail2ban, which is a maintained open-source 
project that does the same sort of thing:

http://www.fail2ban.org/
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