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Date:      Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:31:08 +0100
From:      Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk>
To:        "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: limiting brute force attacks
Message-ID:  <276435252.20060228163108@rulez.sk>
In-Reply-To: <20060228152555.GE29050@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
References:  <20060228152555.GE29050@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

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Hello Michael,

Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 4:25:55 PM, you contributed this to our collective wisdom:

> Hey people,

> I've seen some efforts from the netfilter community on Linux to provide a
> means to limit brute-force attacks via firewall rules. Can anyone suggest a
> way to do the same on FreeBSD? 

> I'm primarily interested in limiting attacks on sshd. I already use RSA auth,
> but I like defense-in-depth.

maybe you would be interested in ports/security/bruteforceblocker ?

> Thanks,
> Mike

-- 
Sincerely,
  Daniel Gerzo




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