[Gllug] limiting ssh zombie login attempts

[Ken Smith]

Same here - I changed the port that SSH was listening on

Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Fitzgerald" <ben_m_f at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "gllug" <gllug at ukfsn.org>
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 11:05 PM
Subject: [Gllug] limiting ssh zombie login attempts


> Hi,
> 
> We have an internet facing server that has been receiving an
> increasing number of attempts to guess username/passwords.
> 
> This is, at the moment, just annoying. I'd like to see that it
> gets no worse by installing something like portsentry to
> dynamically manage /etc/hosts.deny.
> 
> Is this the best package for linux, or have others come to the
> fore that are worth trying?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Ben Fitzgerald
> Registered Linux user number 339435
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