Re: SSH Password-Guessing Attacks

Peter Reutemann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.waikato
Message-ID <CAHoQ12LXrLJWYcf2CF0rdqy3scE2wDJxExyK+cWpbecWtS_YSw@mail.gmail.com>
> I suppose you know that if you put a machine on the Internet with an
> SSH server listening on port 22, you are going to get bombarded with
> password-guessing login attempts.
>
> Previously, I thought that moving the SSH server to a nonstandard port
> was sufficient to block these. But now I am seeing these attacks
> happening on my Rimu VPS anyway. Should I bother to change the port
> again?

Only allow key-based logins?

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
_______________________________________________
wlug mailing list | [email protected]
Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.