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Re: log monitoring, changing iptables
From: Jorge Gajon <jorge.gajon () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:16:42 -0600
Although this isn't what you are asking here, I'll recommend you read this good article http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1810 which show you how to enable publick key authentication. After you enable it and it is working correctly, disable Password authentications, in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file have these lines PermitRootLogin no PasswordAuthentication no Like you I was having a maraton of guess attempts everyday, which was making me somewhat nervous. Now the ssh daemon only accepts connections from my machine at the office and my other machine at home. Forgive me if you already knew all this or if somebody has already told it. Regards - Jorge Gajon
On Tue, 22 Nov 2004, Tom Boulay wrote: I'm sorry if this is overly simple, I'm just new to it. I'm trying to figure out a way to monitor my system logs and use that information to ignore traffic from an IP address for, say, 15 minutes after three failed login attempts. My machine (2.4.x) only has ssh listening. My logs seem to have some marathon repeated root login attempts on the weekends, and I would like to discourage those by including the 15 minute delay. How would I monitor the /var/log/messages? Do I need to use something like sec?
Current thread:
- log monitoring, changing iptables Tom Boulay (Nov 23)
- Re: log monitoring, changing iptables Alexander Klimov (Nov 24)
- Re: log monitoring, changing iptables Jorge Gajon (Nov 27)
- Re: log monitoring, changing iptables Alexander Klimov (Nov 24)