Got it. Thank you both for clearing up the definitions for me; and thanks to Jeremie for pointing me to pf. I'll look at that tonight and see if suits my intention.
-Scott On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mattias Pehlke <matt...@mpehlke.de> wrote: > * Scott <amorphous.yet....@gmail.com> [11.11.2011 20:30]: >> Hello, >> >> $ grep 'MaxSessions' /etc/ssh/sshd_config >> MaxSessions 2 >> >> But I can log into a box with at least 5 sessions (I stopped trying at >> that point). > > This is not the focus of the MaxSessions directive > > See http://openssh.org/txt/release-5.1: > > [...] > * Added a MaxSessions option to sshd_config(5) to allow control of the > number of multiplexed sessions supported over a single TCP connection. > This allows increasing the number of allowed sessions above the > previous default of 10, disabling connection multiplexing > (MaxSessions=1) or disallowing login/shell/subsystem sessions > entirely (MaxSessions=0). > > > > -- > Mattias
