On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:25:36AM -0700, CHAT KHODA wrote: > > 1- Monitor all of the connections(or tries) to my SSH > port including the source IP address. OpenSSH logs username, remote address and means of authentification to /var/log/secure. Is this enough? > 2- Limit the numer of unsuccessfull attempts to login > to just two attempts per session. Edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set the argument to MaxAuthTries to 2. Emmanuel