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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Fri May 20 18:11:13 2022 +0000 (2022-05-20) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/sshguard/description.txt Fri May 20 18:11:13 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ 1.4 +Sshguard protects hosts from brute-force attacks against SSH and other services. 1.5 +It aggregates system logs and blocks repeat offenders using one of several 1.6 +firewall backends, including iptables, ipfw, and pf. 1.7 + 1.8 +Sshguard can read log messages from standard input (suitable for piping from syslog) 1.9 +or monitor one or more log files. 1.10 +Log messages are parsed, line-by-line, for recognised patterns. 1.11 +If an attack, such as several login failures within a few seconds, is detected, 1.12 +the offending IP is blocked. 1.13 +Offenders are unblocked after a set interval, but can be semi-permanently banned 1.14 +using the blacklist option.