Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:48:46 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> To: Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH Brute Force attempts Message-ID: <48E4368E.4020404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48E16E93.3090601@gmail.com> References: <48E16E93.3090601@gmail.com>
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-----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-----
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