wok annotate sshguard/description.txt @ rev 25539
Up perl-test-compile (3.1.0)
author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Thu Mar 09 12:11:13 2023 +0000 (15 months ago) |
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Hans-G?nter@24289 | 1 Sshguard protects hosts from brute-force attacks against SSH and other services. |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 2 It aggregates system logs and blocks repeat offenders using one of several |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 3 firewall backends, including iptables, ipfw, and pf. |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 4 |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 5 Sshguard can read log messages from standard input (suitable for piping from syslog) |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 6 or monitor one or more log files. |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 7 Log messages are parsed, line-by-line, for recognised patterns. |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 8 If an attack, such as several login failures within a few seconds, is detected, |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 9 the offending IP is blocked. |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 10 Offenders are unblocked after a set interval, but can be semi-permanently banned |
Hans-G?nter@24289 | 11 using the blacklist option. |