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DenyHosts

DenyHosts

Posted Jul 20, 2006 18:41 UTC (Thu) by pcharlan (guest, #29128)
Parent article: BlockSSHD version 0.5 released (SourceForge)

I haven't used BlockSSHD, but we have deployed DenyHosts on a few machines and it appears to work well. It's a python script that adds to /etc/hosts.deny when it notices N unsuccessful attempts to log into your machine.


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