Re: shutting down dictionary attacks

From: Josh Grosse (josh_at_jggimi.homeip.net)
Date: 07/04/05

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To: "Brian J. Woods" <brianjwd@gmail.com>

    On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:03:15AM -0500, Brian J. Woods wrote:

    > Look at documentation for sshd for StrictMode, the time writing this I
    > didn't have the time. Also MaxAuthTries, try changing the value from the
    > one you have to see if that changes things a bit. I think the problem
    > you have is not so trivial, but this should be an interesting thread on
    > ways to handle this.

    The default for StrictMode is "yes" -- but it just checks users files to
    determine if they're world writeable. I'm not sure how it would apply.

    I'm setting MauxAuthTries to 1, the default is 6.

    You're right. This is certainly interesting.

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