how to react on ssh attacks?

[Trevor TeC Christian]

On Mon, October 24, 2005 5:49 am, Stephanus Fengler said:
> <snip>
>
> So shell I worry about it or do I need to do some countermeasures?
>
> <snip>
> If someone can point me in the right direction what to do and what
> certainly not to do I would be thankful.
>

It's good to have good password practices, as well as disable the root ssh
login.  Users requiring root permissions and capabilities should login as
a regular user and su to root...

In terms of a "counter-measure" or some level of defense against the
attacks, I'm fond of denyHosts

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

> Thanks,
> fengler
>
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