[CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

Tue Mar 8 21:47:19 UTC 2011
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

2011/3/8 John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>:
> On 03/08/11 11:47 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>> Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows
>> box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12 min to 5 min
>> before it was attacked.
>
> and how long after you connect a 'nix box before worms start port
> knocking on ssh trying stupid combinations of user/pass over and over?
> I see a couple 1000 of those a day

disable password authentication before starting ssh :)

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Eero