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Re: [LUG] Securing SSH

 

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:58 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:41 +0100, William Fidell wrote:
> >
> > You might want to have a look at this 
> > http://security.linux.com/security/05/09/15/1655234.shtml?tid=35.  It 
> > has some interesting ideas.
> > 
> Yes, this seems to be a good article.
> 
> I would add that although it mentions rootkits, it didn't seem to
> mention actually running a rootkit checker. If someone has gotten into a
> server via SSH (or indeed by any other method) and installed a rootkit,
> then discovering that fact would be nice :-) I run both chkrootkit and
> rkhunter via cron (google will show where the home pages for these are).
> 
> 
> 
> John.
> 
--

Move the port that ssh listens on to another, eg 222 that way only you
will know the port and you can still access it from anywhere?



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