Re: [Shorewall-users] Limiting Bruce Force Attacks.

[Scott R. <sr...@ge...>]

This is what you said Tom Eastep
> Scott Ruckh wrote:
>> I am revisiting the thread "shorewall friendly way of limiting ssh brute
>> force attacks?":
>>
>> http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users/2005-February/017249.html
>>
>> I am wondering if this is still the preferred method for limiting Bruce
>> Force attacks.
>>
>> I would like to temporarily disable FTP attempts for users/bots that are
>> attempting bruce force attacks.
>>
>> In the article your rule contains level and tag parameters.  What do
>> those
>> parameters mean?
>>
>
> Please read http://www.shorewall.net/PortKnocking.html#id2450982
>

Is there a typo on this page (Item #3 What are shorewall actions?).

http://www.shorewall.net/Actions.html

Should it read:

User-defined Actions. These actions are created by end-users. They are
listed in the file /etc/shorewall/actions and are defined in action.*
files in /etc/shorewall or in another directory listed in your CONFIG_PATH
(defined in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf).

Thanks
Scott