Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:23:02 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd brute force attempts? Message-ID: <4464fjd009.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0609191412p5779d94cqa16df5631f4de916@mail.gmail.com> (Joao Barros's message of "Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:12:37 %2B0100") References: <20060919165400.A4380@prime.gushi.org> <70e8236f0609191412p5779d94cqa16df5631f4de916@mail.gmail.com>
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"Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> writes: > On 9/19/06, Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm@prime.gushi.org> wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to >> block brute-force SSH attempts. Anyone out there know of something a bit >> more BSD savvy? >> >> My best attempt will be to get this: >> >> http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/index_15.html >> >> running and adapt it. >> >> I've found a few things based on openBSD's pf, but that doesn't seem to be >> the default in BSD either. It is one of the several firewalling packet filters that come in the FreeBSD base system. >> Any response appreciated. >> > > I'm using BruteForceBlocker quite successfully. > I take the opportunity to thank danger for it :-) > > http://www.freshports.org/security/bruteforceblocker/ Which works with pf, as far as I can see. There also seems to be security/bruteblock, which works with ipfw2.
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