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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Marko A. Jennings
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:07 PM
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Entries in /var/log/messages
If your circumstances allow it, I suggest moving your sshd to a port other
than 22. That stopped it for me.
Marko
On Sun, August 21, 2005 3:03 pm, Jerry Geis said:
> I have quite a few entries in /var/log/messages for connection attempts.
> Is there anything other
> than ignoring them I can do? Example is below.
>
> Aug 21 15:48:19 machine sshd(pam_unix)[17903]: check pass; user unknown
> Aug 21 15:48:19 machine sshd(pam_unix)[17903]: authentication failure;
> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser=
> rhost=wsip-24-234-149-156.lv.lv.cox.net
>
> THanks,
>
> Jerry
>
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In addition, there are options in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to limit
allowed users. Such as AllowUsers username.
Also, setting PermitRootLogin no
Will increase safety.
