what about a feature like blocking a client for N minutes if more than N
times of failed logins. its relativily easy to implement and lows down
brute force attacks
Am 20.05.2021 um 16:44 schrieb Matt Johnston:
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 02:29:20PM +0000, Walter Harms wrote:
Thx for the fast response,
for the background: little system, far-far-away land, but some script-kiddie is
filling the log ...
so no iptables or other fancy stuff. Seems i have to change that, somehow.
@matt:
in case i get something working ...
i am thinking about fnmatch and inet_ntoa would that be acceptable ?
I'm not really sure it's the job of Dropbear to be doing
that filtering. Though I wonder if it might make sense to
optionally not bother logging failed SSH auth attempts,
given how many there are...
Cheers,
Matt
