SSHGuard
sshguard protects hosts from brute-force attacks against SSH and other services. It aggregates system logs and blocks repeat offenders using one of several firewall backends.
- Website: https://www.sshguard.net/
- Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/sshguard/sshguard/
Installation
See INSTALL.rst for dependencies and detailed instructions. Briefly:
If you are building from Git, run this first:
autoreconf -i
Then, build it like a normal source distribution:
./configure
make && make install
Usage
Copy the sample configuration file examples/sshguard.conf.sample and follow the setup instructions in sshguard-setup(7). See sshguard(8) for additional options.
Troubleshooting
See the "Troubleshooting" section in sshguard-setup(7).
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.rst>.
License
sshguard is available under the terms of the OpenBSD license, which is based on the ISC License. See COPYING for details.
Authors
- Michele Mazzucchi <mij@bitchx.it>,
- T.J. Jones <tjjones03@gmail.com>,
- Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000@gmail.com>