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From: Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:26:03
Message-Id: 5bc4c4570606051012y5b12fee2g63c1f657f0f35978@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue by Leandro Melo de Sales
1 2006/6/5, Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@×××××.com>:
2 > Yes, but how can I do it?
3 >
4 > 2006/6/5, Joseph <syscon@×××××××××.com>:
5 > > Try port knocking. It is very effective.
6 > > Your ssh port will be closed until you successfully hit certain number
7 > > of ports and even though the ssh port will be open only to the IP
8 > > address that successfully opened the port all others will see ssh port
9 > > as closed.
10 > >
11 > > --
12 > > #Joseph
13 > >
14 > > On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 12:06 -0300, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote:
15 > > > Hi,
16 > > >
17 > > > today when I was checking the server log I got many external
18 > > > attempts to connect to my sshd service:
19 > > >
20 > > > ...
21 > > > Jun 5 05:09:45 embedded sshd[4740]: Invalid user barbara from x.y.w.z
22 > > > Jun 5 05:09:46 embedded sshd[4742]: Invalid user barb from x.y.w.z
23 > > > Jun 5 05:09:48 embedded sshd[4744]: Invalid user barbie from x.y.w.z
24 > > > Jun 5 05:09:50 embedded sshd[4746]: Invalid user barbra from x.y.w.z
25 > > > Jun 5 05:09:51 embedded sshd[4748]: Invalid user barman from x.y.w.z
26 > > > Jun 5 05:09:53 embedded sshd[4750]: Invalid user barney from x.y.w.z
27 > > > ...
28 > >
29 > > --
30 > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
31 > >
32 > >
33
34
35 I mean, setup it!
36 --
37 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@×××××××.cz>