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On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:54 AM, A. Khattri wrote: |
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> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, John Jolet wrote: |
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>> I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port |
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>> 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) |
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> I dont think moving ssh from port 22 will stop portscans but it |
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> will stop |
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> brute force attacks directly on port 22. |
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Perhaps I was unclear. I haven't seen the large numbers of attempted |
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logins with obvious dictionary lists of usernames on ssh since I |
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moved it. |
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I'll have to look into denyhosts...what does it do? I can't predict |
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where I might be coming from, as I'm frequently at client locations |
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and travelling. |
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> I prefer to just run denyhosts on my servers instead: |
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> # eix denyhosts |
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> * app-admin/denyhosts |
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> Available versions: 1.1.2 1.1.2-r1 2.1 |
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> Installed: 2.1 |
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> Homepage: http://www.denyhosts.net |
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> Description: DenyHosts is a utility to help sys admins |
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> thwart ssh hackers |
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