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Use DenyHosts to Allow More Secure SSH Access
Posted at February 7, 2008 4:40 pm | In Research | By Ben Woodruff
Tags: Networking, Research, Security
The FLOSS project DenyHosts is designed to make it safer to allow SSH access to hosts. The basic idea behind it is that when there are X number of unsuccessful login attempts from an IP/host it will block that host from connecting via SSH.
I used this program back in the day, under Fedora, but ran across it again today as a possible solution for a security threat I identified during my weekly audit. Not sure what platforms it will work on, but I imagine just about any *NIX based system that has Python installed will work.
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