how to react on ssh attacks? [solved]

[Stephanus Fengler]

Trevor TeC Christian wrote:

>On Mon, October 24, 2005 5:49 am, Stephanus Fengler said:
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>>So shell I worry about it or do I need to do some countermeasures?
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>>If someone can point me in the right direction what to do and what
>>certainly not to do I would be thankful.
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>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...
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>In terms of a "counter-measure" or some level of defense against the
>attacks, I'm fond of denyHosts
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>http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
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>>Thanks,
>>fengler
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my reply.
I closed ssh for root, checked pws and installed denyhosts running as a 
cronjob regularly which is really enough for me.

Cheers,
fengler