>> Its exciting to see so many people interested in using Linux more and >> more. I am often asked about setting up a "small server" for web, > Nice write up Jimmy, one other thing I do is to set the SSH listening > port to be something non-standard. It is really just obscuring the fact > SSH is there, but it stops all those logged intrusion attempts, and if > you put the port up high, the server looks completely closed to incoming > traffic on many port scans.
Why not use a VPN like openvpn / gvpe / pptp ? You can just have sshd listen only to connections on the vpn. And if you really need to have sshd on a public ip from time to time, you can use port knocking. _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
