On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 19:18:13 -0500, Slicky Johnson wrote: > Jason, also have a look at the securing Debian manual with attention on > ssh. Perhaps removing passwords all together and only using a key, no > root, etc. From experience I will say moving your listening port from > 22 to something else will keep your logs fairly clear. Internet facing > machine I'm looking at right now only had 8 packets hit 22 yesterday. > Dropped of course and not by chance from the same Chinese IP.
Well, that nicely sidestepped the question. :) The noise on port 22 is of no importance. Its ability to breech sshd is zero. It reminds me of the futile beating of moths' wings against the outside of a window in a lighted room on a dark summer night -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110227112645.GE7935@desktop
