Login attacks

[scootgirl.com]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Yep" <myep at remotelink.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:24 PM
Subject: Login attacks


> Hello
>
> In my LogWatch report I get many login attacks, many from the same IP 
> address.
>
> sshd:
>    Authentication Failures:
>       root (218.232.109.187): 59 Time(s)
>       adm (218.232.109.187): 2 Time(s)
>       apache (218.232.109.187): 1 Time(s)
>       nobody (218.232.109.187): 1 Time(s)
>       operator (218.232.109.187): 1 Time(s)
>    Invalid Users:
>       Unknown Account: 43 Time(s)
>
> I have permitRootLogin set to NO, and I use strong passwords, but can I 
> just add these IP addresses to hosts.deny?
> and if so how would I set that up
>



I set SSHd to a non standard port way up the chain and changed my firewall 
rules. No more problems.

Karen
http://scootgirl.com/