Re: help? fighting ssh user/password guessing attempts

["Thomas Feddersen" <thomas.feddersen%t-online.de@localhost>]

Am 15.10.2008, 20:42 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Feddersen  
<thomas.feddersen%t-online.de@localhost>:

> Is PAM and / or a firewall (which? - PF, IPFilter, iptables) enabled by  
> default?
> I still need more assistance in setting PAM-af up. Can somebody please  
> help me or point out a howto? Does anybody have experience with PAM-af?

Okay, changing the portnumber will certainly bring some relief to this  
nuisance. Blacklistinig the "malevolent host-addresses" may be a good idea.

Out of curiosity I'd like to come back to my initial question above: Does  
anybody have experience or further reading about NetBSD firewall and the  
PAM system? Installing the PAM-af package was easy, but it's obviously not  
working. How do I start it? I assume the relevant files are located in  
/etc/pam.d/, but I'm reluctant to change the anything without deper  
understanding - for fear that my attempt to fix a problem may open a  
security hole.