On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 18:12, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
If you have a (potentially) vulnerable server exposed, using
something
like fail2ban (if I remembered the name correctly) can be a good idea.
It allows a limited number of attempts from an IP, then temporarily
blacklists that IP. A hacker would have to have tremendous luck to
guess a password in only two attempts, for instance.
An alternative to fail2ban is denyhosts.
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