[CentOS] Securing SSH

Matt Shields mattboston at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 17:06:29 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Tim Alberts <talberts at msiscales.com> 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?

DenyHosts - http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/  Also, when you set it
up, set it to download the lists from their website.  These lists are
IPs that other users have found scanning their network.


-- 
-matt



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