[CentOS] I appear to be attacking others

Sun Feb 5 09:46:25 UTC 2006
James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com>

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 10:30 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> 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/Ignacio,

Thank you very much for your help!!!! I think it's all cleaned up now. I
will look at using public key based auth and disabling ssh passwords. 

Thanks again.
James