Re: Preventing people trying lots of logins

From: Benno (spamtrap_at_ans-net.nl)
Date: 12/30/04


Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:57:41 +0100


"Stuart Moore" <usenet_05_08_2004@stuartmoore.org.uk> wrote in message
news:cr18ck$j87$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk...
> I'm running a linux box with fedora core 2 over a home DSL connection. I
> keep seeing entries in the logs suggesting that a given host has tried to
> make many (100+) connections to my ssh server, using a variety of
> different usernames (some common first names, others names like apache,
> webmaster etc)

Try running sshd on a differend port.

Benno



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