On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:29:55 +1000 (EST) Chris Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: | > | > I've just moved the public port of the sshd on | > another port, quite lame | > but at least I'm not bothered by worms :) | | | i believe this has to be one of the simplest ways of | stopping incoming ssh attacks. Of course, this is just to stop mindless (and quite lame in this case) worms to fill my logs. It's almost-nonexistent impact on the complexity of the system, and almost all the scans (by worms or people with a portscanner) directed to ssh I've ever received are directed to 22 only. This, btw, seems to be the case with all the people I've speaked with on the subject, so I guess it's a good addition to the usual precautions (disallow certain users, do not use passwords and so on, guess everyone has a favorite receipt :) Frankye -- Frankye Fattarelli |U| |P| |S|F| [email protected] |R| |S| |Y|I| this email is RFC 3514 compliant |G| |H| |N|N| _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"