rate limiting sshd connections ?

[Mike Tancsa]

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.