Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:22:34 +0100 From: Peter Kropholler <zen31722@zen.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: illegal user root user failed login attempts Message-ID: <ec0b1e25b6de0216c5744ed8d40d560c@zen.co.uk>
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I run a server at home on port 22. There are loads of illegal user attempts to login every few days. As its at home I protect myself by having only one user on the sshd AllowUsers list and with a very strong password and no admin/sysman priveleges. So essentially every failed login attempt is illegal. Is there any way to actually record what passwords the hackers' scripts are trying? I am just really intrigued to know what they are thinking might work. I realize that it's not normally appropriate to log people's passwords but in my case I am literally the only user who will ever legitimately login to my machine ______________________________ Professor Peter H Kropholler Department of Mathematics University of Glasgow University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QW Tel +44 (0)141 330 4124 Fax +44 (0)141 330 4111 email p.h.kropholler@maths.gla.ac.uk ______________________________
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