Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:46:27 +0100 From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd break-in attempt Message-ID: <87ejq9kgik.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <459A5A45.4080309@wmptl.com> (Nathan Vidican's message of "Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:12:37 -0500") References: <459A5A45.4080309@wmptl.com>
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Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> writes: > of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to > make sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid > login attempts are made within a minute's time? if you use pf, it's fairly straightforward with an overload rule, see eg http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html Cheers, -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" Dec 22 02:13:59 delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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