Re: [SSHGuard-users] Blacklisting attempts on root?

[@lbutlr <kr...@kr...>]

On 05 Oct 2018, at 11:38, @lbutlr <kr...@kr...> wrote:
> I’m more comfortable writing a bash script to run on occasion and add the IPs to the blacklist myself, but I don’t know how sshguard tracks the permanent list as opposed to the timed list.

I have a cunning plan.<1>

If I use a facility like log rotate to create multiple log lines for the connection attempts I want to permaban, will sshguard be fooled into seeing one attempt as, say, 16 attempts in the same second?

<1> http://blackadderquotes.com/i-have-a-cunning-plan

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