======== 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) <doc/sshguard-setup.7.rst>. See sshguard(8) <doc/sshguard.8.rst> for additional options.

Troubleshooting

See the "Troubleshooting" section in sshguard-setup(7) <doc/sshguard-setup.7.rst>_.

Contributing

See <CONTRIBUTING.rst>_.

License

sshguard is available under the terms of the OpenBSD license <http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD>, 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