attack

[Rahul Sundaram]

roland brouwers wrote:

>Hello everybody,
>
>Someone is attacking for a certain time on port SSH2
>He is trying to login as root and uses all kind of usernames.
>See annexed textfile 
>
>How can I block a user after x failed logins?
>Can I do something else?
>
>Roland Brouwers
>Email roland at cat.be
> 
>
>  
>
There was extensive amount of discussions related to this previously. 
Please search the list archives. Someone mentioned this

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

regards
Rahul