Re: ssh attempts

Another fun addition is port knocking with iptables:

http://www.neep.co.uk/index.php?tab=Projects&menu=Port%20Knocking


Robert Bauer wrote: 
Limiting SSH to a particular IP (or set of IP's) isn't always practical.

As for how & where to do the blocking, besides TCPWrappers, don't forget
the excellent iptables firewall you probably already have on your system.

Also, consider changing the port SSH listens on.  This will stop nearly
all of the scripted attacks.  Another valuable technique is to have your
system detect these attacks and dynamically block the source IP
addresses.  Scripts for doing this are pretty easy to find on the net.

Robert Bauer
Snow Enterprises
(336) 623-7772 ext. 307


Leif Ericksen wrote:
Lock down your box a little more... Enable TCPWrappers in the very
least. IF they are able to hit your system like that via SSH it is
obvious that you are not blocking. This is common. My firewall logs
show and have shown attempts to ssh (This is for a personal system)
they get stopped at the firewall because they are not coming from the
correct IP address(es) Incidentally the ones I see hitting my firewall
cam from China, Korea, and Taiwan for the most part, least wise that is
what the IP indicated as long as it was not spoofed. 

Before I locked down my firewall to IP I would see the rejects because
of Wrappers.

If the system is on the net LOCK IT DOWN.

--
Leif Ericksen On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 11:35 +0100, Emilio Casbas wrote:
I´ve noticed that several Linux Machines I have running are getting scanned via ssh for
multiple accounts such as "guest webmaster mysql info shell apache test..." and many others,
the log show:

Jan 3 01:31:08 machine sshd2[22087]: WARNING: DNS lookup failed for "X.X.X.233".
Jan 3 01:31:10 machine sshd2[22087]: password authentication failed. Login to account webmaster not allowed or account non-existent.
Jan 3 01:31:13 machine sshd2[21757]: LoginGraceTime exceeded.

as well there are attempts to connect with root login, with the log message show as:

WARNING: DNS lookup failed for "X.X.X.233".
Jan  3 01:17:53 machine sshd2[21651]: root login denied for user 'root'.

Obviously, We don´t have accounts with that name on our systems, and the root account
is disabled for ssh, but I would like to know which software can do this scan type, because
while it's running, the machine proccesses grow too much.

Thanks.
Emilio C.


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