Do a search for "ssh-faker" - I've found this very effective.
Daveh
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jim Perrin
Sent: 10 March 2006 21:44
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: sshd hack
On 3/10/06, Chris Mauritz <chrism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not really a programmer and I recently came across this hack to
> insert a short sleep statement into auth-passwd.c within sshd. It
> seems to quickly confuse automated dictionary attacks. I've moved
> sshd to higher ports but apparently the cretins are now scanning to
> look for that and attacking on whatever port sshd shows up on.
>
> Anyway, the link to the hack is here:
>
> http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/ssh-kiddies.html
>
> Just wondering if any of the wizened programmers out there can think
> of any reason why this would be a bad thing to do.
Messing with sshd source isn't something I'm ready to play around with. I'd
rather farm it out to a 3rd party wrapper like denyhosts to block this crap.
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety''
Benjamin Franklin 1775
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