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Re: shutting down dictionary attacks

from [Josh Grosse] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: shutting down dictionary attacks
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:48:45 -0400 
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:56:25AM -0000, LD wrote:

The only problem with setting the max to 1 is that if you're running an
SSH key agent, your SSH program may attempt key authentication.  Each key
in the ring counts as 1 authentication try, so this could possibly cut you
off if you use keys.  Just a warning ;)  Easily fixed.


Thanks for the warning.

I am running with key authentication (RSA), but not with forwarding agents --
only X11 is tunnelled.  So MaxAuthTries 1 works fine with OpenSSH or Putty
clients.
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