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Date:      Tue, 6 May 2008 12:39:12 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time?
Message-ID:  <20080506173912.GB85015@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <200805060931.18936.beech@freebsd.org>
References:  <q7412457qoumm8v8dbth10fug2ctbrlfp0@4ax.com> <200805060931.18936.beech@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:31:15AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between
> > login attempts increases after X failed tries?
> 
> Not that I know of. You should look into denyhosts (in the ports) it
> works well and even has a RBL feature to block some of these script
> kiddies proactively. Unfortunately, these attempts have become a fact
> of life. I probably get 20 - 30 attempts a day between my various
> servers.

Depending on how you use ssh from external systems you could add
firewall rules to disallow all but known sources.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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