[SSHd] Increasing wait time?
Beech Rintoul
beech at freebsd.org
Tue May 6 17:31:23 UTC 2008
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
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