SheLTeR: id’s blog

Few weeks ago i was Googling for some solution to block ssh bruteforce attacks dynamically generating firewall rules. The first thing i’ve tried was iptables -m recent. A pretty straightforward tutorial could be found here. But it didn’t suite, as it blocked ALL ip’s after any n connection, successful or not. It meant, that i could open only n shells to a remote host. For me it seemed annoying. Increasing n leads to usefullness degradation of this method, so i switched to the alternative one - sshguard. (more…)

For about a month i’m studying and trying to use puppet. What I want to say - is that it really rocks!!! As soon as I get few hours of free time, i’ll write docs about setting it up on my favourite Debian distro and post some sample configs with rather detailed comments and some links to approriative docs on ReductiveLabs wiki.

A small howot install it in Ubuntu is here

Finally, i’ve got it! yep, this is my blog, and this is the first post in it… it was rather difficult for me to choose a theme, i didn’t find what i _REALLY_ wanted, but someting like that… I need to work on an image, which is in the header, but really have no time - spent about an hour above planned. So for now i left the default theme, it displays all info i want and in the way i like

And, yes, i decided to blog in english. Maybe to attract as many readers as i can and not to lose them due to russian; maybe just to practice my english, which skills i lost during last few years. Anyways - for now i’ll write in English and _only_ English, but i promice to do my best to make russian translations of at least the most interesting articles as soon as possible!