[Gllug] Router under attack: help/advice needed

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On 30 Sep 2009, David Damerell verbalised:

> On Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
>>My server receives SSH login attempts on a regular basis.  These are
>>dictionary attacks against various usernames and have not succeeded
>>in gaining access to my system.
>
> This has been going on for ages now - months if not years. Pretty much
> any world-accessible ssh daemon will be being prodded. If you don't
> want to go down the route of port knocking or running sshd on a
> non-standard port,

... or simply disabling password-interactive authentication?
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