Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 19:46:30 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming "root" to "homer"? Message-ID: <200805301946.30967.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200805301748.m4UHmc6Q020790@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200805301748.m4UHmc6Q020790@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Friday 30 May 2008, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Another idea would be to move sshd from the default port > to a non-standard port, e.g. 222 or whatever. =A0Typically > ssh brute force attacks target port 22 only. =A0This will > also clear your logs from useless break-in attempts. /usr/ports/security/denyhosts is quite good for permanently blocking=20 access from IP's that make suspicious ssh probes. It reduces garbage in=20 the logs too because after a remote address gets blocked future probes=20 from it get rejected before they even get as far as being logged. =2D-=20 Mike Clarke
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