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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >