Re: [cobalt-users] attempted slam

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

Follow-up on this;
I've got lots of saved logs where someone from "sympatico.ca" has tried to
get in; plenty of entries where portsentry has dropped their ip into the
hosts.deny file. But each time they try, they're on a different IP, so
that's not helping.
Tonight I dropped sympatico.ca itself into the hosts.deny file. I didn't
know I could do it like that, was just trying on the off-chance it would
work. (I thought I had to have an entire IP.)
Hopefully it will work. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Is there a more secure way to transfer files?  My SSH is set up to do this
(thanks Zeffie!) but I don't want my clients to have to have shell access
and have to buy SecureCRT to do it. Putty, a great little free SSH term,
doesn't do file transfers.

I'm gonna do a run through the archives and see if I can find anything on
this, or if there's a way to only allow ftp access from a user login that
matches a certain IP range - that way, even if someone gets a client's
password, they still won't be able to login unless they're coming from the
same town my client is (more or less). I've got a list from my logs of each
of the clients logging in and their ISPs, so I could do this if I could find
a way to do it.

CarrieB