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 is available for download here (28KB).
You can also check out the latest version of the source via Subversion; for example, to check out into a directory named bansshee:
svn co svn://svn.wincent.com/bansshee/trunk bansshee
An XML feed showing recent commits to the repository is also available (more information).
Donations
Bansshee is free software released under the GPL license. If it is useful to you, please consider making a donation.
The Bansshee domain names (bansshee.org, bansshee.com and bansshee.net) are provided as a convenience for users. Charles Steinman has kindly donated to cover the cost of their registration from April 2007 through April 2008.
History
1.0 (16 October 2006)
- First public availability
1.0-internal (12 April 2006)
- Original version (not publicly released).
