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How to do it…

We will find the failed SSH login attempts using the grep and cat commands. First, be a root user. Type the sudo su command. Next, run the following command to fetch the failed attempts using the grep command:

# grep "Failed password" /var/log/auth.log

You can do this using the cat command also. Run the following command:

# cat /var/log/auth.log | grep "Failed password"

You can block the particular IP address that has failed SSH login attempt using tcp-wrapper. Navigate to the /etc directory. Look for the hosts.deny file, add the following line in the file, and save the file:

sshd: 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0