Thanks everybody.
there quit a lot and very useful information for a newbie like me. i'll have a look into some of the suggestion, almost all of them a new to me. i'll try them by myself, and might be get back to you guys if there is any problem.
thanks.
On 15/02/07, Jens Ahlin mailing_lists+centos@caleotech.com wrote:
Why not change the port that the SSH daemon listens to. Change it to use an unused port > 1024 and you will see that the attempt will stop.
JensHi,
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?
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