[BUGS] Constant SSH login spam

[jonathan michaels]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:01:23AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:44:26AM +1100, Joshua Bromfield wrote:
> > Hey Jerahmy,
> > 
> > I had 12,000 logins over one weekend just a month or so ago.
> > 
> > I installed: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > Since then I have had absolutely no activity whatsoever.
> 
> Then you have a different problem, since it parses your /var/log/auth.log :-)

in what way different, please ?

what are the two different methods ?

as an aside, i've just gone through my own logs and seen much
teh same level of back ground levels but i'm getting more login
attempts making it into one of teh log files.

much appreciations

regards

jonathan

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