Got hacked?

JT Moree moreejt at pcxperience.com
Fri Feb 23 20:58:28 MST 2007


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Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> On my windows boxes I eliminate brute force attacks by having it lock
> out any account for 2 seconds after a wrong password and 15 minuets
> after 10 wrong passwords.  But I don?t know how to configure this on
> Linux? 

you can use swatch to execute commands like adding firewall rules upon
seeing 10 wrong passwords.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/swatch/
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Protect_SSHD_with_Swatch

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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