Re: [SSHGuard-users] Connection to ssh is an "attack"?

[Nico S. <nic...@un...>]

I would say it should be like this, as you can exhaust the ssh
connection pool by just doing that. See sshd_config option MaxStartups.

Cheers,

Nico

Greg Bell via sshguard-users <ssh...@li...> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Running 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 20.04.
>
> I noticed from the logs that simply connecting to sshd counts as an
> "attack", before I even enter my password. So ssh'ing, ctrl-c'ing
> before doing anything, then repeating a few times locks out that IP.
>
> Is this intentional?
>
>
>
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