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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:07:51 -0400
To: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@mecon.gov.ar>
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Subject: Re: rate limiting sshd connections ?
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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.