(PerSource)Penalties default perhaps too aggressive?

hvjunk hvjunk at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 05:13:54 AEST 2025


Good day,

Scenario:

 Busy with my first deployment/lab test of PVE9/Debian13 that uses OpenSSH 10.0-p1 (1:10.0p1-7 Deb package version) and my normal ssh-copy-id triggers the penalty and then doesn’t install the keys. In *my* case I have like 4x keys to load, so ssh-copy-id tries them all, and then get the penalty triggers and the keys aren’t loaded.

My usual protection I deployed was sshguard (but typically after my ssh loaded and then I run Ansible deployments) 

Q: using ssh-copy-id with 4x keys to test and load, how should I change the penalty settings to not block it so aggressively?


Hendrik





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