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Re: PAM tarpit module for repeated SSH login attempts



On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:30:37PM +0200, Giacomo Mulas wrote:
What about using the tarpit netfilter module (which is in the patch-o-matic of netfilter) to do the dirty work and have the pam module simply insert/remove firewalling rules? It sounds more like the *nix way of doing things, with simple, specialised tools for specific purposes...

Inserting and removing firewall rules is simpler than sleeping?

Mike Stone



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