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From: Jason Booth <jbooth@××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening SSHD
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:35:23
Message-Id: 200610231334.38397.jbooth@hyperintelligent.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening SSHD by Brian Davis
1 On Monday 23 October 2006 13:21, Brian Davis wrote:
2 > What do you folks do to harden SSHD? I'm looking for some pointers.
3 >
4 > Thanks,
5 > Brian
6 I'm not sure what you mean. I suppose you could make a chroot jail for ssh,
7 except I'm assuming you want access to the real system... which you could run
8 a separate server on a different port and use iptables to allow connection to
9 that port only from a specific i.p. address..
10
11 The main thing I have noticed lately is the huge volume of brute-force
12 attacks:
13
14 Using DenyHosts is pretty much a necessity now.
15 app-admin/denyhosts
16
17 -Jason
18
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20 gpg public key: http://lazybird.hyperintelligent.net/~jbooth/jbooth_key.asc
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Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening SSHD Brian Davis <bridavis@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-hardened] Hardening SSHD Andrew Ross <aross@g.o>