From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jan 5 12:13:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.wlv.netzero.net (mail7.wlv.netzero.net [209.247.163.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6957237B41A for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:13:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14258 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 20:13:50 -0000 Received: from ppp-65-91-244-170.mclass.broadwing.net (HELO daleco) (65.91.244.170) by mail7.wlv.netzero.net with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 20:13:50 -0000 Message-ID: <034201c19625$9b9564a0$6af25b41@daleco> From: "Kevin Kinsey" To: Subject: maxstartups in sshd_config Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:14:39 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_033F_01C195F3.4FD47600" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_033F_01C195F3.4FD47600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Considering setting mentioned variable more in the neighborhood of 4:50:25. However, questions that occurs is, is someone is trying to login in w/o authorization, wouldn't the daemon treat my login attempts in the same way? How likely would I be to have trouble logging in if I set this to this value? Also, what am I not thinking of, and is there really any benefit anyway? TIA, Kevin Kinsey ------=_NextPart_000_033F_01C195F3.4FD47600 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Considering setting mentioned variable=20 more
in the neighborhood of = 4:50:25.
 
However, questions that occurs is, is=20 someone
is trying to login in w/o = authorization,=20 wouldn't
the daemon treat my login attempts in = the=20 same
way?  How likely would I be to = have trouble=20 logging
in if I set this to this = value?
 
Also, what am I not thinking of, and is = there
really any benefit anyway?
 
TIA, Kevin = Kinsey
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