Feature request: AlwaysDenyLogin, LoginDelayTime

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Dec 11, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Richard Stoughton wrote:

> Thank you for your reply.
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Jim Knoble <jmknoble at pobox.com>  
> wrote:
>> Circa 2008-12-09 18:26 dixit Richard Stoughton:
>>
>> : Please consider adding the following features to sshd:
>> :
>> : 1. AlwaysDenyLogin - a setting that will result in always denying
>> : login regardless of the credentials given by the client.
>>
>> This capabality is already available, via several different methods:
>> ...
>
> The basic idea behind the feature request is to let easily setup
> a kind of tarpit sshd in parallel to a 'normal' sshd:
>

Why would you run OpenSSH in a tarpit mode?  This seems like a broken  
idea.  Tarpit software should be small and non-functional (e.g.  
OpenBSD's spamd).  And OpenSSH is not. =)

- Ben