On Wednesday 07 May 2008 06:16:19 Norbert Papke wrote: > On May 6, 2008, Gilles wrote: > > Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login > > attempts increases after X failed tries? > > I run sshd via inetd rather than as a stand-alone daemon. inetd provides > optional rate limiting functionality. For instance. putting > > ssh stream tcp nowait/20/4/10 root /usr/sbin/sshd sshd -i > > into /etc/inetd.conf set a limit of > > * 20 overall ssh connections > * 4 connection attempts per minute > * at most 10 connections from a single IP > > This works very well on a personal server, not sure how it scales up.
So if I copy over some files via scp, I can lock myself out. Fun stuff ;) -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"