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Old 16th January 2017
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Originally Posted by psypro View Post
...But how can i verify it is working? is it configured out of the box, or do I need to tell it ...
I do not have sshguard installed, but with the -L option of pkg_info(1) I can see it has a both a man page and an OpenBSD-specific README:
Code:
$ pkg_info -L sshguard
Information for https://ftp5.usa.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/sshguard-1.5p1.tgz

Files:
/usr/local/man/man8/sshguard.8
/usr/local/sbin/sshguard
/usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/sshguard-1.5p1
/etc/rc.d/sshguard


$
I do not have the man page, but it may answer your provisioning questions.
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And on a more meta level, does program like sshguard strengthen or weaken the security.
Just like TronDD, I don't think this makes any significant change in your security. It just blocks these attackers to keep them out of your logs. You have already done the most important thing: you disabled password authentication.
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