[Sshguard-users] protecting a server with password authentication disabled

[Henri S. <hen...@gm...>]

I have been looking at ways to use SSH Guard to protect a server which only accepts key based authentication. I did find a discussion about enabling protection for pre-auth : 

https://sourceforge.net/p/sshguard/mailman/message/32351603/

Basically, I am curious to know if there is a simple option to enable protection for SSHD which only accept key-based authentication or if the recommended approach is to dive in and start modifying various files.

Any feed back on this would be great. I understand that attacks against a good key should not be an issue. But is seems like stopping anything from trying to connect the the server with some sort of malicious intent over and over again is a good idea.