[nflug] Blocking out unwanted guests...

[Franklin Kumro Jr]

Using denyhosts will ban users who do exactly what you described
automatically. If you want to ban them by hand then do the following

To block all access add the following to hosts.deny

ALL: IPADDRESS

to block just ssh then add this

sshd: IPADDRESS

On Jan 6, 2008 11:27 AM, Robert Wolfe <robert at niagara-panux.com> wrote:
> Good morning everyone!
>
> Woke up this morning to emails from logwatch showing over a hundred
> unauthorized ssh login attempts to my box this morning (all from the
> same IP).  I am wondering if there is any way, using the hosts.deny
> file, that I can block out individual IP addresses from accessing my box
> at all?
>
> Thanks!
>
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