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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:45:54 +0200
From: J65nko BSD <j65nko@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts
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On 4/26/05, Peter Kropholler <zen31722@zen.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>=20
> So essentially every failed login attempt is illegal.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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
> ______________________________

Moving your ssh port away from port 22 seems to stop these attempts.
These logons seem to come from cracked Linux boxes. This issue has
been discussed quite a lot on this list.

For a non-list discussion, see
http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=3D&threadid=3D27683

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