Thanks everybody.
there quit a lot and very useful information for a newbie like me.
i'll have a look into some of the suggestion, almost all of them a new to me.
i'll try them by myself, and might be get back to you guys if there is
any problem.
thanks.
On 15/02/07, Jens Ahlin <mailing_lists+centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why not change the port that the SSH daemon listens to. Change it to use
an unused port > 1024 and you will see that the attempt will stop.
Jens
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> eventhough i've disable all the user accounts, left only the admin
> accounts. making the password so hard, longer and combining alphabet,
> numbers and characters... yet i dont want the attackers keep on
> trying.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks in advance.
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