Protecting against ssh brute-force attacks

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Wed Nov 2 17:42:24 UTC 2005


>>>>> "NB" == Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:

NB> denyhosts has a big problem - it never removes entries - so
NB> hosts.deny will grow without bounds.

This is untrue.  You can specify how long entries live in hosts.deny,
and how often the daemon will attempt to prune them.

 - J<




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