Login Delay

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jun 24, 2005, at 07:20, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote:

> I just want to make
> it just that much harder and more painful for the bad guys.

Sounds like you want iptables -j TARPIT

   http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1723

If you have unused public IP's you can make things worse for the 
badguys by tarpitting everything in that range:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/labrea
Dr. Evil kinds of fun.

I haven't tried either myself (yet) but have heard from some who say it 
works as advertised.

-Bill
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