Re: [wlug] SSH Password-Guessing Attacks

I suppose you know that if you put a machine on the Internet with an SSH server listening on port 22, you are going to get bombarded with password-guessing login attempts.

Previously, I thought that moving the SSH server to a nonstandard port was sufficient to block these. But now I am seeing these attacks happening on my Rimu VPS anyway. Should I bother to change the port again?

Only allow key-based logins? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/