Just wanted to comment that the super-wimple way to avoid all this headache is to run SSHD on a non-standard port. I never get scans like that on my boxes which are on weird ports. To make connecting to the machines easy (and to keep things like rsync and scp happy) and not have to remember a bunch of command line switches, I put my "weird" port in my user's .ssh/config file like this:
host * Port 12345 And then if there are machines I connect to regularly that need different settings I add entries like: host someserver User thatguy Port 22 You can even setup automatic proxying (with netcat) and stuff: host server_needs_a_proxy.domain.com ProxyCommand ssh server_I_bounce_through.domain.com nc -w 1 %h 22 Anyway! a little OT, but I hope someone finds it useful. QH _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
