Please Help! How to STOP them...

[Norberto Meijome]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:53:47 +1100
Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:

> I would add to limit the number of passwords retries - so if they want to
> hammer you, at least they'll have to try a new connection. Of course, this
> leaves you open to a DOS ... but , well, i guess you are still open to that
> the second you're on the net :)

dont forget that the fallback between keyboard-auth and key based auth counts
as a failure, so make sure you have at least 2 failures allowed.

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