ssh Access from the internet

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Tue May 13 03:47:49 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:48:30PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
>I am getting increasingly annoyed with the random bots brute forcing ssh on my
>public IPs. What do you guys use?

You're got several excellent suggestions, but here's one more -
denyhosts.  It bans repeated attempts from a given IP address.  I would
recommend as a quick fix, require keys, change port and install
denyhosts.
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yours,

William

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