From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 1 15:24:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27BF106568F for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:24:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gesbbb@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp102.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (smtp102.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D4DA8FC14 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 85394 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2010 15:24:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References:Reply-To:Organization:X-Mailer:Face:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=P5axhxUsvYOjJUYpLUVMVRBob0xCQ/P0KkHN7OmpDUIKynKDZARn4gb2WEF4stuloZnG4w0K/SfWhcpWvi3yXd19XJDsP4flbmy2nozUJllm0u8mxEdd7scjGNFCc38HY818Tfw+dK7rq6xg6BryI39hhb7JHoKDhMu6U+OHpFg= ; Received: from c-67-189-160-65.hsd1.ny.comcast.net (gesbbb@67.189.160.65 with login) by smtp102.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 01 Jan 2010 07:24:13 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: yeAAMgKswBATCul4lSbCWspvTA-- X-YMail-OSG: v3K9H6YVM1kVl7653DqouSeMQLfqvP9ETDTWodrjx2xtz_cCq_83APS3RJ6yZ3OiYrzR.E9jmqbHY0uykbAs7xCC9A9LSEZWEUzt2r850pFWJZnvvHpPh12cwEzm8pabC1F27a8i25rhfXuz.IvwA7IUFHlFT8IbKWCJ2.A5Szn.a.lCMpduvG4G8EveO.LghaSBfOaqtTOsLZthBTaCTcG8yYjITAX_TWWikn_OsjF.DHQPGNSo0DcxUtIhdN5M.WPpGyaNsiV7C.o1Ucc1A7FGUPUGLrb83Xqs1EUCZ60lOdusqLldoalec3Jvxt0TOoOOscezDnxFjdrQUlqxUQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (scorpio.seibercom.net [192.168.1.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: gesbbb@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3C88922825 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:24:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:24:12 -0500 From: Jerry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100101102412.4c7a0b21@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <4B3E0D11.1080101@pdconsec.net> References: <4B3E0D11.1080101@pdconsec.net> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.3 (GTK+ 2.18.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Face: 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 X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Blocking a slow-burning SSH bruteforce X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:24:21 -0000 On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:56:17 +1100 David Rawling replied: >Apart from switching away from user authentication to private/public >keys ... is there anything I can do to mitigate these attacks? Any >advice welcome. Is there a specific reason that you don't want to use keys? -- Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | Most general statements are false, including this one. Alexander Dumas