Interesting coincidence; I was just exploring sshguard as a means to accomplish 
similar goals this weekend.

On Jan 20, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> This is package contains library that can be used by network daemons to
> communicate with a packet filter via a daemon to enforce opening and
> closing ports dynamically based on policy.

Having the daemons directly record the outcome of their authentication seems 
preferable to groveling through log entries as, for example, sshguard does.  
However, that requires modification of the relevant daemons and is in that 
sense more intrusive.  

Is your idea to modify (or encourage modification of) a broad array of daemons 
that might benefit from this?  I'm thinking, for example, of daemons 
responsible for IMAP mail delivery and other such things that require 
credentials.  Is this something that can be added to PAM and thereby avoid 
being so intrusive on the daemons themselves?

Cheers,
Brook

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