[BlueOnyx:11948] Re: Blocking brute force SSH login attempts

[Fungal Style]

Kev,
 
I see you have found the ever unanswerable question... how many attempts is too many.... security vs usability.... it is a trade off...
 

> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:24:47 -0700
> From: kAnderson at digital-adrenaline.com
> To: james at slor.net
> CC: blueonyx at blueonyx.it
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:11945] Re: Blocking brute force SSH login attempts
> 
> I use Fail2Ban. It works excellent, except when a client locks the self out. :)
> 
> Kev
> 
> On Jan 9, 2013, at 7:08 AM, "James" <james at slor.net> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a simple way in BlueOnyx to auto-block hosts that fail to login via
> > SSH too many times? Something similar to the Failed Logins settings for the
> > BlueOnyx login page but for SSH?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> 
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