Hey first of all you need to disables root login.
This is done by editing the etc/ssh/sshd_config file
Uncominting the PermitRootLogin no or changing the yes to no.
After that you could change the port but that would give some difficulties
for the users
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Kjellstrom
Sent: 27. marts 2008 09:20
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Securing SSH
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Tim Alberts wrote:
> Tim Alberts wrote:
> > So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I
> > think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the
> > world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the
system.
> >
> > What's a good way to deal with this?
>
> SSH question. Can I setup a group of users who can access SSH from
> the local network. Then a separate list of users that can access SSH
> from the internet?
Yes, see /etc/security/access.conf (it's well commented).
/Peter
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