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Quoting Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com>:

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> Recently I'm getting a lot of brute force attempts on my server, in the
> past I've used various tips and tricks with linux boxes but many of them
> were fairly linux specific.
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> What do you BSD guys use for this purpose?
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> If this belongs on -security let me know and I'll ask over there.


Just do not use password authentication but public key authentication  
and a reasonable passphrase on it.

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