Re: what to do?

From: Alexander Klimov (alserkli_at_inbox.ru)
Date: 08/28/05

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    Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:19:12 +0300 (IDT)
To: Bill Smith <vinet138@yahoo.com>

    Hi.

    On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Bill Smith wrote:
    > I noticed that someone is trying to hacker into my
    > machine. Please see below is the content of
    > /var/log/security.
    > what I would like some advice of you guys is, what
    > will I do with these people?

    The remote hosts are usually just owned boxes. If you are sure that
    your passwords are strong (or you use pub key authentication) you can
    ignore this. If you want to keep you log clean you can either change
    your log preferences or run ssh on a non-default port.

    See also
    http://www.google.com/search?q=ssh%20brute-force%20attacks 

    -- 
Regards,
ASK
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