Feature request: FAIL_DELAY-support for sshd

Peter Stuge stuge-openssh-unix-dev at cdy.org
Thu Feb 3 08:45:38 EST 2005


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:59:42PM +0100, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
> But, how you deal with the following situation: Two users (a "good"
> user and a "bad" user) are behind a firewall with one public IP.
> Now the "bad" user tries 3 wrong passwords. After that, the "good"
> user can not connect to his host (denial-of-service attack).

I would probably set up a VPN between the two networks.


//Peter




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