rate limiting sshd connections ?

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Mon May 10 08:56:50 PDT 2004


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.

	---Mike
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