[Klug-general] iptables (firewall), usermode linux, digital camera

Athon Solo athon at athon.me.uk
Fri Aug 19 09:07:48 BST 2005


Unfortunately I'm unable to change ports because of the university 
firewall. I'll look into the possibility of using private keys.

Allen

Enquiries wrote:
> On Friday 19 Aug 2005 00:17, Athon Solo wrote:
> <SNIP>
> 
> 
> your not doing any checking on your output chain.
> 
> a quick way to stop nearly all of the ssh login attempts from zombie hosts is 
> to change the port to something higher eg above 1024. as these zombie hosts 
> mostly check if port 22 is open and start a wordlist attack. to stop them all 
> together you should not use password based authentication but private keys 
> instead, you could carry this key on your memory stick etc.
> 



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