On Feb 15, 2007, at 8:02 AM, Mohd Syakir wrote:
i have one centos 4.3 box, exposed to the internet.
since several weeks ago, i found numerous attemps to connect through
SSH, but failed.
they tried with many username, including root.
it's comes from different IP. some of them are foreign website.
How do i make my centos become smarter in handling this kind of
attacks.
DenyHosts is very good at cutting down on these attacks:
http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
There's a denyhosts package in rpmforge.
-steve
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If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an
improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night
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