Hello,

I have denyhosts set with the following options:

DENY_THRESHOLD_INVALID = 3
DENY_THRESHOLD_VALID = 3

In my understanding this should block all ssh login attempts from a host which fails to provide correct login credentials 3 times (no matter if the user actually exists or not at my system). This appears to work. But I have a question. When I look at the log I can see something like that:

Failed password for root from 218.9.127.236 port 46472 ssh2 Jun 17 19:55:38 lists sshd[8048]: Failed password for root from 218.9.127.236 port 46631 ssh2 Jun 17 19:55:42 lists sshd[8052]: Failed password for root from 218.9.127.236 port 46786 ssh2 Jun 17 19:55:45 lists sshd[8057]: Failed password for root from 218.9.127.236 port 46952 ssh2 Jun 17 19:55:49 lists sshd[8069]: Failed password for root from 218.9.127.236 port 47106 ssh2 Jun 17 19:55:53 lists sshd[8071]: Failed password for root from 218.9.127.236 port 47261 ssh2 Jun 17 19:55:56 lists sshd[8075]: Failed password for root from 218.9.127.236 port 47414 ssh2 Jun 17 19:56:00 lists sshd[8079]: Failed password for root from 218.9.127.236 port 47566 ssh2 Jun 17 19:56:03 lists sshd[8081]:

How can I determine whether the user has actually been cut off after 3 attempts? Or does the above mean that the user was not blocked?

Many thanks for your advice!

Warm regards from Poland.

Zbigniew Szalbot

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