From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 03:15:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 939CF106568C for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 03:15:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F30E8FC15 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 03:15:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n4so433974wag.27 for ; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:15:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:from; bh=7vaREzqjbkKQLcbxRMCNxvqR8oXfqv3hLsVrgk5diLg=; b=j2Wl0Jpfi2e6ucHyeJwt9LEpQCaUjyKb5+TLqw2CAEPoyaxWi6sEe5XFzBkDnIEdje 7vhnZjKSm9II40VVeSJ5ezeJyueoBMqAHflYavOv/njLHN5pZjN1u7LBsmQKKybnYVZb xzKIFmgOBjdLH/6ufdDlL2e11cJUUdrajPJQY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:user-agent:mime-version :to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=A8NKuBgdM28/g472G8QsH3UBqlLAzgKLmxQpnzNtOVsYHs+bI+/V5wh0ehcEeXs7Xv IE0jButiVJqG1TdLY8D0OeCVxtIEvzSIaOEevNG/qjkL+WMSO5ONCh48NHppcx1/xAdx r2KS5O8AcRZu2ilGRaVU8OZ+LMXv1QbMSAhJ4= Received: by 10.114.182.15 with SMTP id e15mr10179703waf.84.1222915733693; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:48:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.101? (ool-182d26f3.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.38.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m26sm835097pof.8.2008.10.01.19.48.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:48:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48E4368E.4020404@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:48:46 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US;) Gecko Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rich Healey References: <48E16E93.3090601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48E16E93.3090601@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eitan Adler Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH Brute Force attempts X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:15:00 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rich Healey wrote: > Recently I'm getting a lot of brute force attempts on my server, in the > past I've used various tips and tricks with linux boxes but many of them > were fairly linux specific. > > What do you BSD guys use for this purpose? > > If this belongs on -security let me know and I'll ask over there. > > Cheers > > > Rich _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Personally I find that changing the port to anything other than 22 stops a lot of the skiddie brute force attacks. Thats not to say you shouldn't use something else as well - but it is something. P.S. Can someone please let me know if the mailing list got this message - some of my messages have not been getting replies for some reason. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjkNo4ACgkQtl8kq+nCzNGUKQCeN/bmzWuYr+Xc8i/iXufayd3l LWYAnRcdVWTQe4t/EXDxBYpC+QlEO1CD =4rKm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----