ssh wish list?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Chris Rapier wrote in
 <98ef47a5-b8d3-4677-acb6-ed424627c820 at psc.edu>:
 |I get that. We use fail2ban here because we've a number of ways people 
 |can connect to our systems so we needed something that was more 
 |flexible. It's also nice that it just bans the IP so it can't keep 
 |hammering the service.
 |
 |I think it depends on your use case. That said, I understand why some 
 |people might not want to use yet another process when all they are 
 |trying to do is ban people spamming your sshd process. No promises but 
 |we can look into it. I don't think the actually banning part would be 
 |all that hard. It's everything that goes along with it in terms of 
 |managing things and making sure it would be performant enough in high 
 |volume scenarios.

No need to look, blacklist now blocklist daemon of NetBSD and
FreeBSD already have the necessary patch.

--steffen
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