limit ssh attempts

[Daniel Armstrong]

On 11/28/05, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:10:01PM -0500, lfeder wrote:
>
> >BTW,
> >I always make important passwords with a lot of alphanumerics.
> >I don't think uppercase/lowercase and all kinds of complexity is that
> >important, rather just keep it out of the normal dictionary
> >
> > As always, I welcome feedback and improvements.

You could re-assign ssh to listen to a non-standard port, editing
/etc/sshd_config with the line (for example):

# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
Port 22022

...restart ssh, and then login with:

ssh -p 22022 <your address>

Daniel
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