Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

[Maarten Sanders]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 07:22 -0400, Lee Capps wrote:
> On 11:18 Wed 24 Aug     , Chris St Denis wrote:
> > How can I easily auto deny after x failed attempts? Is this an sshd setting?
> > I could find it.
> > 
> > Is there something in ports that will firewall off somebody who is brute
> > forcing?
> 
> In addition to adding entries to /etc/hosts.allow you could try
> DenyHosts:
> 
> http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I didn't find a port, but it works with FreeBSD and isn't too onerous to
> install.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Lee
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Nice suggestion, but how do I enable tcp_wrappers with sshd?

See : http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ssh_config.html 
I tried adding 

sshd: 127.0.0.1 : deny to /etc/hosts.allow but I failed the described
test. 

Maarten