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On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:27, Josh wrote:
> For those lucky enough to run Debian, I highly recommend installing
> fail2ban.
>
> If you have a publically available SSH server, check your auth.log... I
> find most such machines have (literally) a thousand or so failed login
> attempts a day from bots searching for weak machines. fail2ban is a
> great debian package that uses an iptables blacklist to block any IP
> with 4 or more failed attempts in some short time period from logging in
> for the next 600 seconds.
>
> apt-get install fail2ban
How would I do this on a SuSE box? Locate and whereis turn up no sign of
auth.log. What else might it be called or what dir is it sitting in on your
box?
Phillip
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