On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:45 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I thought I saw a patch or feature for an sshd for blocking max
> connections per client, max failed authentication attempts per client,
> and/or max authentication attempts per client . Does anyone know about
> that?
>
> Or do any less popular open source SSH servers provide that? (Keep counter
> of connections, attempts, failures per client?)
There are a number of perl scripts and what not that will tail your
secure.log and record failed logins and other connection information.
A number of them will also use iptables to block attacking IP's, which
is most useful. :]
You could always hack up a perl script to record that information for
you, I haven't heard or see of any readily available solution floating
around....
> I thought I saw a patch or feature for an sshd for blocking max
> connections per client, max failed authentication attempts per client,
> and/or max authentication attempts per client . Does anyone know about
> that?
>
> Or do any less popular open source SSH servers provide that? (Keep counter
> of connections, attempts, failures per client?)
There are a number of perl scripts and what not that will tail your
secure.log and record failed logins and other connection information.
A number of them will also use iptables to block attacking IP's, which
is most useful. :]
You could always hack up a perl script to record that information for
you, I haven't heard or see of any readily available solution floating
around....
HTH
~k
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