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Re: Stopping SSH dictionary attacks?

To: misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
Subject: Re: Stopping SSH dictionary attacks?
From: James Doherty <james_(_at_)_zeald_(_dot_)_com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:49:48 +1300

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 09:52 -0800, Chris Weiss wrote:
> So I notice in my authlog that someone's been hitting my SSH daemon with 
> a 'dictionary' username attack from multiple IPs. It's not really 
> causing too much trouble (I've only got one name in the AllowUsers 
> config option), but I sure would like to put a stop to it.

One way is to run ssh on a different port.
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- Stopping SSH dictionary attacks?
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