Limit concurrent connections
Matt Johnston
matt at ucc.asn.au
Sat Jun 17 00:21:27 WST 2006
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:02:50AM -0700, Rich Turner wrote:
> I have looked through options.h and could not find where I could define the
> total number of concurrent client connections that are allowed to be
> connected to the dropbear server. I would like to limit the number of
> authorized connections to 1. Is this possible?
>
> I do see in options.h the ability to limit the number unauthorized clients,
> but nothing to limit the number of authorized clients.
There isn't a setting for this by default. You can achieve
it by setting MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS 1, then commenting out the
"m_close(svr_ses.childpipe)" call near the bottom of
svr-auth.c. It seems to work here, you might want to test it
a bit though. Let me know how it goes.
Cheers,
Matt
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