On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 18:12, Tim <ignored_mailbox@yaho...> 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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