Re: Passing password in ssh

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 22:11 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m limit --limit 5/hour -j LOG --log-prefix "SSH connexion "
> -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m limit --limit 5/hour -j ACCEPT
> -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j LOG --log-prefix "SSH connexion attack dropped "
> -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j DROP 

But five naughty attempts during an hour that you were wanting to
connect, and you've been DoSed...  Unless other rules, such as:

> Note too that this is my second access control; I run shorewall on
> the Internet gateway, and that blocks great gobs of people who've
> offended me.

Ensure that doesn't happen.

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