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Re: ssh doesn't work.

From Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: ssh doesn't work.
Date 2016-12-07 23:20 +0100
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 15:54:46 -0500
Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:28:53PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> > 	Hi.
> > 
> > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 21:14:51 +0200
> > Antti Talsta <atalsta@nothingtosee.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 01:49:34PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Changing the port at least decreases the number of brute force attacks
> > > > against you, which saves resources (bandwidth, CPU) that are otherwise
> > > > wasted by the attackers.
> > > 
> > > How about fail2ban for that?
> > 
> > How fail2ban can help against an army of bots trying one single
> > password per bot?
> > 
> That actually works well. Usually it's multiple attempts from one ip.
> fail2ban catches exactly that. And then blacklists that ip.

Probably it is so. It's been awhile since I ran publicly accessible
sshd on port 22 with password authentication enabled.

Personally I prefer a bunch of simple iptables rules to fail2ban
though. After all, why bother running a userspace tool, if you can
force the kernel itself to do the job?

Reco

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ssh doesn't work. EenyMeenyMinyMoa <eenymeenyminymoa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 05:40 +0100
  Re: ssh doesn't work. Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2016-12-06 07:30 +0100
    Re: ssh doesn't work. EenyMeenyMinyMoa <eenymeenyminymoa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 16:30 +0100
      Re: ssh doesn't work. Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-07 17:00 +0100
        Re: ssh doesn't work. EenyMeenyMinyMoa <eenymeenyminymoa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 18:40 +0100
          Re: ssh doesn't work. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-07 19:00 +0100
            Re: ssh doesn't work. EenyMeenyMinyMoa <eenymeenyminymoa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 05:20 +0100
          Re: ssh doesn't work. Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-07 19:20 +0100
            Re: ssh doesn't work. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-07 19:50 +0100
              Re: ssh doesn't work. Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-07 20:20 +0100
              Re: ssh doesn't work. Antti Talsta <atalsta@nothingtosee.org> - 2016-12-07 20:30 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 21:30 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-07 21:50 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 23:20 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-12-08 16:40 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 18:00 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Antti Talsta <atalsta@nothingtosee.org> - 2016-12-07 21:50 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 23:20 +0100
              Re: ssh doesn't work. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 21:30 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. EenyMeenyMinyMoa <eenymeenyminymoa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 05:20 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 11:10 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. EenyMeenyMinyMoa <eenymeenyminymoa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-10 06:00 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-12-10 10:10 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-12-11 08:40 +0100
            Re: ssh doesn't work. EenyMeenyMinyMoa <eenymeenyminymoa@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 06:50 +0100
              Re: ssh doesn't work. emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-12-08 09:00 +0100
                Re: ssh doesn't work. Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-12-08 13:50 +0100
          Re: ssh doesn't work. emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 20:20 +0100

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