[CentOS] Defending againts simultanious attacks
MrKiwi
mrkiwi at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 23:12:00 UTC 2007
I have *never* had an ssh attempt on my boxes with
non-standard port numbers.
I (used to) get *hourly* attempts on port 22.
If you really want to get paranoid though, have a look at
the various port openers.
"Pork knocking" is the phrase you need to google for.
Regards,
MrKiwi
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Kamill S wrote:
> Hello,
>
> you can let listen sshd on Port 222 for example. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_conf
>
> In line #Port 22
>
> Greetz
>
>
> Mohd Syakir wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have one centos 4.3 box, exposed to the internet.
>> since several weeks ago, i found numerous attemps to connect through
>> SSH, but failed.
>>
>> they tried with many username, including root.
>> it's comes from different IP. some of them are foreign website.
>>
>> How do i make my centos become smarter in handling this kind of attacks.
>>
>> eventhough i've disable all the user accounts, left only the admin
>> accounts. making the password so hard, longer and combining alphabet,
>> numbers and characters... yet i dont want the attackers keep on
>> trying.
>>
>> any suggestions?
>>
>> thanks in advance.
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