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On Monday 03 October 2005 11:11, Philip Radford wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with configuring and > securing the SSH daemon from unauthorised access. I have recently > discovered that my server was being targeted by a dictionary attack via SSH I think there are lots of people, myself included, receiving similar attacks at the moment - I don't worry about it, since I know everything uses secure passwords (maybe one day I'll regret not worrying about it, but for now...). > on Port 22 and therefore got me thinking about ways to restrict by IP > address or even not to use remote SSH login via the root login at all and > access the server via alternative means. > Lots of people use public key-based authentication, which should be much more secure than password-based. See: http://cfm.gs.washington.edu/security/ssh/client-pkauth/ Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.ethereye.org.uk - EtherEye Network Host Checker www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html