Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:31:15 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> Subject: Re: [SSHd] Increasing wait time? Message-ID: <200805060931.18936.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <q7412457qoumm8v8dbth10fug2ctbrlfp0@4ax.com> References: <q7412457qoumm8v8dbth10fug2ctbrlfp0@4ax.com>
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On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Gilles said: > Hello > > I'm a bit tired of people trying to break into SSH: > > May 6 16:59:23 freebsd sshd[24649]: Invalid user agatha from > 195.43.9.246 > May 6 16:59:26 freebsd sshd[24651]: Invalid user cristie from > 195.43.9.246 > May 6 16:59:29 freebsd sshd[24653]: Invalid user number from > 195.43.9.246 > May 6 16:59:31 freebsd sshd[24655]: Invalid user chamber from > 195.43.9.246 > etc. > > Is there a way to configure SSHd, so that the wait time between > login attempts increases after X failed tries? > > Thank you. Not that I know of. You should look into denyhosts (in the ports) it works well and even has a RBL feature to block some of these script kiddies proactively. Unfortunately, these attempts have become a fact of life. I probably get 20 - 30 attempts a day between my various servers. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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