Hello,
I am working on an application that needs to be able to rapidly detect a
lost connection between an ssh client and ssh server. I am using ssh to
do local and remote port forwarding, and sending data across the
forwarded ports. I was originally relying upon the TCPKeepAlive probes,
bu
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:20:38PM -0300, Christian Grunfeld wrote:
> This will not disturb a normal human login with a couple failures but
> makes a robot to wait with a potential law.
That really isn't the job of OpenSSH, but more for PAM or some other
authentication module. Further, there is al
you can already use fail2ban to accomplish this kind of thing.
the original idea i think is somewhat terrible in a multi-user
enterprise-y kind of environment since you'll wind up telling users that
they have to wait 2 seconds before entering their passphrase
constantly. for your home server
Why not utilize OpenVPN to tunnel to the network and allow only local
connections made to the ssh server?
It solves all my problems.
On Apr 2, 2011, at 2:09 AM, "Ward, Jon" wrote:
> 1.) Great idea.
> 2.) This could be a massive impediment to legitimate automated connections.
> Part of a proce
