Ned Slider wrote: > >> 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? >>> > > The Wiki has an article here on just this: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH > I've been experimenting with the iptables filtering with the recent module, but I have not yet had success. I do have my default policy to reject with icmp and I've read the note that the default should be DROP. Is this the problem? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: talberts.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 337 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080415/f70fc787/attachment-0003.vcf>