Bansshee
Bansshee is a lightweight daemon written in Perl designed to thwart dictionary-based SSH brute force attacks. For more information see this article and a the subsequent update.
Download
Version 1.0.1 is available for download here (28KB).
You can also check out the latest version of the source via Git; for example, to check out into a directory named bansshee:
git clone git://git.wincent.com/bansshee.git
A web-based repository browser is also available.
Donations
Bansshee is free software released under the BSD license. If it is useful to you, please consider making a donation.
History
1.0.1 (24 June 2009)
- Add support files for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.
- License changed from GPL to BSD license.
1.0 (16 October 2006)
- First public availability
1.0-internal (12 April 2006)
- Original version (not publicly released).