On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:19:07AM +0200, G?tz Reinicke wrote:
> today I had about 1.000 Authentication Failures to ssh and I had time to
> think about how to limit and secure this issue.

Hint: don't bother. Those were all authentication *failures*, so your
system is already secure. You don't have an issue.

(If any of them did get through, then you have an easily guessable
password somewhere, and nothing that you do will shorewall will help
you)

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