Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:07:51 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@mecon.gov.ar> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rate limiting sshd connections ? Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20040510120626.035ccb20@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <20040510160159.GY306@bal740r0.mecon.gov.ar> References: <6.0.3.0.0.20040510115614.04be3708@64.7.153.2> <20040510160159.GY306@bal740r0.mecon.gov.ar>
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At 12:01 PM 10/05/2004, Fernando Schapachnik wrote:
>Have you checked MaxStartups at the sshd_config man page?
Thanks, I am not sure how I missed that :( I only looked through the=20
daemon's docs and was searching on the key words rate limit via google.
---Mike
>En un mensaje anterior, Mike Tancsa escribi=F3:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to rate limit ssh connections from an IP=
address
> > ? We are starting to see more and more brute force attempts to guess
> > simple passwords "/usr/sbin/inetd -wWl -C 10" is nice for slowing down
> > attempts to services launched via inetd. Is there an equiv method for
> > doing this to sshd? Running from inetd has some issues supposedly.
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