ssh security

Gerald gwichman at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 00:50:41 UTC 2005


Thanks Andy.. You are correct it was not moved over. I fixed this and
it now works properly on port 50022

g

On 12/26/05, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> Gerald wrote:
>
> > It looks like i'm getting a dictionary attack on my system. I moved
> > ssh to another port instead of 22 in hopes that would put a halt to it
> > but it did not. Any recommendations to improve security here? I notice
>
> I'm very dubious that these attack scripts can find your new sshd listen
> port if it is not directly associated with ssh protocol.  The first
> thing to check is that you actually moved it.  Here's a box listening on 22:
>
> # netstat -pln | grep sshd
> tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*
>     LISTEN      3819/sshd
>
> Note that you would have needed
>
> service sshd restart
>
> after changing
>
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>
> -Andy




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