Limiting Failed SSH Logins
I would like to limit failure retries on my Fedora machine to 5. I think I can accomplish it with PAM. But was unable to to do this.
I have referred to this article to do this
http://www.puschitz.com/SecuringLinux.shtml
Please provide suggestions
Solution 1:
You might be interested in fail2ban.
Solution 2:
Simply modify your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file; add
MaxAuthTries 5
and restart sshd.