28 Mar
2008
28 Mar
'08
6:39 p.m.
Tim Alberts wrote:
So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system.
What's a good way to deal with this?
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~> cat sshd_config ... IgnoreRhosts yes PermitEmptyPasswords no UsePAM yes
Use PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules). Did anyone mention it here? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/whatispam.html "Basically, it is a flexible mechanism for authenticating users."
Regards,
Daniel
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University of Tennessee
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