[CentOS] I appear to be attacking others

Sun Feb 5 09:30:31 UTC 2006
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

James Pifer wrote:
> Besides killing what's running, how do I get this all cleaned up? 
> 
> The hotmail account has been denied logins now. I've also set a new
> password on the account.

Drop Passwords for SSH completely and use public key based
authentification. There, one problem gone.

More on <http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/>

If you *have* to use passwords somewhere: Don't use weak ones.

Ralph
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