Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (9 mails)

[Ralf Ronneburger <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wolfgang,

SuSEfirewall2 (config file /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2) already has an
option for this:

FW_SERVICES_ACCEPT_EXT="0.0.0.0/0,tcp,22,,hitcount=3,blockseconds=60,recentname=ssh"

This blocks requests for 60 seconds after the third attempt.

Greetings,

Ralf



Wolfgang Kluge schrieb:
> Good morning.
> I hope someone could help me in this:
>
> I receive remote login attempts in 1 second intervals from the same IP
> address to our port 22.
> Port 22 is forwarded by the firewall ( Sifoworks ).
> OS is openSUSE 11.0
>
> Is there a way to increase the time between a failed login attempt and
> the next possible login re-try ?
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang Kluge

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