From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 17:12:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627F8106564A for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 17:12:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4F38FC1F for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 17:12:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JtQhs-00013G-M4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 May 2008 17:12:00 +0000 Received: from mar92-9-82-237-75-54.fbx.proxad.net ([82.237.75.54]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2008 17:12:00 +0000 Received: from gilles.ganault by mar92-9-82-237-75-54.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2008 17:12:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Gilles Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 19:11:45 +0200 Lines: 18 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mar92-9-82-237-75-54.fbx.proxad.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080505-0, 05/05/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Sender: news Subject: [SSHd] Increasing wait time? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:12:05 -0000 Hello I'm a bit tired of people trying to break into SSH: May 6 16:59:23 freebsd sshd[24649]: Invalid user agatha from 195.43.9.246 May 6 16:59:26 freebsd sshd[24651]: Invalid user cristie from 195.43.9.246 May 6 16:59:29 freebsd sshd[24653]: Invalid user number from 195.43.9.246 May 6 16:59:31 freebsd sshd[24655]: Invalid user chamber from 195.43.9.246 etc. Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between login attempts increases after X failed tries? Thank you.