Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Wolfgang Woehl <tito@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Montag, 10. März 2008 Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP):
> Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> > look at the packages:  fail2ban
> >                        denyhosts

> Regardless whether I use the above packages, I would still like to
> limit the number of sshd logins to 3 per minute.

Hi Otto, I hope you don't mind my nitpicking: Doing this you are of 
course effectively denial-of-service'd by your own firewall as none 
of your regular users will be able to catch a slot.

Whitelisting them might be the only way to maintain the service while 
under attack.

Wolfgang

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