Banning IPs & MACs after too many unsuccessful login attempts 1979

Amadeus W. M.

Sounds like what I need. I am sure I can tune the relevant parameters to my needs.

Yeah. You're probably right. Look: Mar 8 19:59:02 linux sshd15325: Invalid user aahie from Mar 8 19:59:04 linux sshd15329: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:06 linux sshd15331: Invalid user Aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:08 linux sshd15333: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:10 linux sshd15335: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:12 linux sshd15337: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:14 linux sshd15339: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:16 linux sshd15341: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:18 linux sshd15343: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:21 linux sshd15345: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:23 linux sshd15347: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:25 linux sshd15349: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:27 linux sshd15351: Invalid user aaliyah from Mar 8 19:59:29 linux sshd15353: Invalid user aaltje from Mar 8 19:59:31 linux sshd15355: Invalid user aandjstructural from Mar 8 19:59:33 linux sshd15357: Invalid user aando from Mar 8 19:59:35 linux sshd15359: Invalid user aandrei from Mar 8 19:59:37 linux sshd15361: Invalid user aaocash from Mar 8 19:59:39 linux sshd15363: Invalid user aaocash from Mar 8 19:59:41 linux sshd15365: Invalid user aaocash from Mar 8 19:59:43 linux sshd15367: Invalid user aaocash from Mar 8 19:59:45 linux sshd15368 plus 1: Invalid user aaoki from Mar 8 19:59:47 linux sshd15371: Invalid user Aaron from Mar 8 19:59:49 linux sshd15373: Invalid user aaron2 from Mar 8 19:59:51 linux sshd15375: Invalid user aaron from Mar 8 19:59:53 linux sshd15377: Invalid user Aaron from Mar 8 19:59:55 linux sshd15379: Invalid user aaron from Mar 8 19:59:58 linux sshd15381: Invalid user Aaron from Mar 8 20:00:00 linux sshd15383: Invalid user aart from Mar 8 20:00:02 linux sshd15385: Invalid user aartje from Mar 8 20:00:04 linux sshd15417: Invalid user aas2007 from Mar 8 20:00:06 linux sshd15419: Invalid user aas2007 from Mar 8 20:00:08 linux sshd15421: Invalid user aas2007 from Mar 8 20:00:10 linux sshd15423: Invalid user aas2007 from Mar 8 20:00:12 linux sshd15425: Invalid user aasa from Mar 8 20:00:14 linux sshd15427: Invalid user aatef from Mar 8 20:00:16 linux sshd15429: Invalid user aba from Mar 8 20:00:18 linux sshd15431: Invalid user Aba from Mar 8 20:00:20 linux sshd15433: Invalid user aba from

The license file (plaintext, except for the hashes) says "Licenced to: xyz, college abc, etc."

For example I might want to keep my source code in a directory outside a user's home directory that is open for remote logins. Or my research logs. (so someone would need both the user account-pbutt + root account-pbutt to read it)

So going by the principle of "exclude everything and fix what doesn't work", that would mean denying read access to everything outside a given user's home directory.