Wow, I'm glad I asked. This has been very helpful. @Григорьев Александр Thanks for the tip on inetd, that looks like it might just do the trick.
@Paul Macdonald My main reason for looking into this was glancing through the logs on a server I just put online and seeing large numbers of unauthorized login attempts. Everything so far is highly unsophisticated, but it did make me start to really think about the issue. I might put ssh onto a different port, that would at least stop the sort of fishing I am currently seeing. It's not clear if that would be "good enough." @Damien Fleuriot Have you had success with sshguard? Installed it from ports, but then I couldn't quite figure out how to configure it. To be honest, I didn't give it much of a chance before I moved on to the next thing, so if you've had good luck then I should probably give it another shot. I did flip through sshd_config, but as far as I can tell it is only possible to limit the number of concurrent connections. It might take a little longer, but I'm concerned it would still allow a malicious individual to sequentially brute-force a password. Thanks for all the responses. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"