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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
