full-disclosure - Re: Any update on SSH brute force attempts?

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From: Dave.Ewart at cancer.org.uk (Dave Ewart)
Subject: Re: Any update on SSH brute force attempts?

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On Friday, 15.10.2004 at 17:53 -0400, Jay Libove wrote:

> What are you doing/changing about your SSH configurations to reduce
> the possibility of these attacks finding any kind of hole in the
> OpenSSH software (that's what I run, so that's the only version I'm
> particularly concerned about) ?  Are you doing anything at all?

Attacks on my system seemed to be restricted to root, so I set the
'PermitRootLogin without-password' option, so that no root logins using
a password were possible - must be RSA key.  I also switched to
non-standard port.

Dave.
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Dave Ewart
Dave.Ewart@...cer.org.uk
Computing Manager, Epidemiology Unit, Oxford
Cancer Research UK
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