Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Mar 20 mars 2007 10:42, Thomas M Steenholdt a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> Disabling ssh is not a good solution, many people need it. However the
>> default fedora ssh setup is woefully insecure
>>
>> At least ssh rate-limiting should be in the default firewall install.
>> Pam_abl would be even better (for other network services)
>>
> Blacklisting opens the potential for denial-of-service attacks. I'm not
> too familiar with the pam_abl implementation,
You have per-source-host and per-target-user tuneables
Potential problems with user=root and/or IP spoofing?
> but we should at least be
> very cautious if we choose to include and enable such features by default.
Sure. But sitting on the problem won't solve it.
Agreed!
/Thomas