> > I;ve got a machien that seems to getting atacked by what appears to be a > > simplistic "brute force" attck. it's getting hit multiple ties a second > > with bogus root login attempts, my guess is that they are > trying dictionary > > atacks on the password for root. > > > > Any sugestions as to how to deal with this? Change the port ssh is > > listening on maybe? > > Or, let them keep doing it since you know your root password is very > good. > >
And, of course, you are also set up to deny root logins anyway...
