Stop Brute Force Attack on SSH
Adam Thompson
adwulf@gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 01:42:00 GMT 2008
On 18/02/2008, Kyle Dawson <kyle.a.dawson@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I stop attacks on my ssh demon? I see thousands of attempts every
> day. I have, I believe good password policy but since I have clients, not
> 100% sure. Is there some config that I can set? One ip address comes in
> and tries for a day or so. Can it see that it is the same ip and just
> deny? Any tools that can help?
>
>
I have changed the port that my ssh daemon runs on.
Security through obscurity may be no security at all - but tell that
to my logfiles!
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AdamT
"I've had death threats - well, OK, a petition."
- Jack Dee
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