sshd break-in attempt

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

Nathan Vidican <nvidican at wmptl.com> writes:

>  of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to
> make sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid
> login attempts are made within a minute's time? 

if you use pf, it's fairly straightforward with an overload rule, see eg
http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html

Cheers,
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