Re: rate limiting sshd connections ?

From: Mike Tancsa (mike_at_sentex.net)
Date: 05/10/04

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    Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:07:51 -0400
To: Fernando Schapachnik <fernando@mecon.gov.ar>

    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
    daemon's docs and was searching on the key words rate limit via google.

             ---Mike

    >En un mensaje anterior, Mike Tancsa escribió:
    > >
    > > 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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