[CentOS] Securing SSH

[Daniel Andrzejewski]

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?
> 
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~> cat sshd_config
...
IgnoreRhosts yes
PermitEmptyPasswords no
UsePAM yes

Use PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules). Did anyone mention it here?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/whatispam.html
"Basically, it is a flexible mechanism for authenticating users."

Regards,

Daniel

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