Re: [tlug] Blocking bad sshd bruteforce attempt

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:47:56 +0900, Al Hoang <hoanga@example.com> wrote:

> I'm sure the other members of TLUG will offer their own favorite 
> tools to use.

I run sshd on a non-standard port. Okay, it's what's called security by
obscurity and as such many here will tell you that it's doomed to
failure. This said, in 3 years or so if running sshd on a non-standard
port, I have yet to see an attempt to brute-force it on any of the 6 or
so machines I admin that way.

-- 
G. Stewart - godwin.stewart@example.com

If the designers of X-window built cars, there would be no fewer than
five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed
the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car
stereo. Useful feature, that,
                -- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990.

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