From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jan 5 12:16:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail9.wlv.netzero.net (mail9.wlv.netzero.net [209.247.163.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAA5437B419 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:16:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28683 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 20:16:44 -0000 Received: from ppp-65-91-244-170.mclass.broadwing.net (HELO daleco) (65.91.244.170) by mail9.wlv.netzero.net with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 20:16:44 -0000 Message-ID: <035701c19626$032a1de0$6af25b41@daleco> From: "Kevin Kinsey" To: Subject: Repost: txt only: maxstartups in sshd_config Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:17:33 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry, upgraded M$ OE last night and forgot to tell it txt only when dealing with freebsd.org.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Kinsey To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:14 PM Subject: maxstartups in sshd_config 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 ---------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message