MacSFTP got Sandy banned

Posted on Monday, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:00 AM in

Sandy's use of MacSFTP to connect to our server, for some unknown reason, was causing a PAM authentication failure - even though it would log him in fine.  Since I installed fail2ban to protect the server against SSH script-kiddie attacks, he got banned a couple times since a line that said "Authentication failure" popped into the log everytime MacSFTP connected to the server.  He's switched to fugu, which didn't cause an authentication error in the logfile.

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Jo says

Are you trying to tell us Sandy isn't a script kiddie?
Posted Friday, Dec 2, 2005 at 09:10 PM

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