i've already got sshd tied down, inasmuch as users have to be a member of a particular group to ssh in, and i'm about to start running a password-guessing tool. but sshd is very useful to me, and i'm not prepared to shut it down or limit its accessibility.
what i want is a way to limit the number of new connections any one IP address can make, particularly if it starts issuing an awful lot of bad passwords. an iptables-based solution would be fine, as would an sshd-based solution, but i'll entertain anything that works.
does anyone else have this problem, and if so, what are people doing about it? reply offlist, please, and i'll summarise later this week.
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Tom Yates Cambridge, UK. _______________________________________________ LinuxManagers mailing list - http://www.linuxmanagers.org submissions: LinuxManagers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.linuxmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxmanagers