Re: [Solved]: Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-18 Thread Philip Christian
I don't bother with that stuff. One my usernames has a /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys which has a public rsa key in it then i use the corresponding private key to log in from another machine (put it in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa on a linux box, or configure a key file in putty for a windows b

Re: [Solved]: Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 11:15:25AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-06-16 11:51:01 -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > > I ended up going with port knocking and just installed knockd. Too > > cool, i always thought it was harder to set up than it is. I even > > have it playing nice with shorewall

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-06-16 12:08:02 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 16 2005, michael wrote: > > I set up sshd_config to use a different port. That stopped them (for > > now...) > > That's only a palliative solution, as you noted. And some providers filter some ports. However, port 22 is sometimes filtere

Re: [Solved]: Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-06-16 11:51:01 -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I ended up going with port knocking and just installed knockd. Too > cool, i always thought it was harder to set up than it is. I even > have it playing nice with shorewall. Thanks for the suggestions. The problem with port knocking is that it

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-17 Thread Mart Frauenlob
I usually install those programs from original source, as they normally get updated faster then the packages in debian. But if versions are the same, no reason not to use the debian package imho ... Jon Dowland wrote: Mart Frauenlob wrote: get 'chkrootkit' (www.chkrootkit.org) and 'rootkit h

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Mart Frauenlob wrote: get 'chkrootkit' (www.chkrootkit.org) and 'rootkit hunter' (www.rootkit.nl) and check your box. Any reason why 'apt-get install chkrootkit' wouldn't suffice? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-17 Thread Jon Dowland
Have you tried searching the list? This has come up many times in the last few months. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Andre Venter
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Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:16:43AM -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > michael wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 09:05 -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > > > >>I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh > >>which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh > which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a > package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add > iptables rules to drop anything f

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 16 2005, michael wrote: > I set up sshd_config to use a different port. That stopped them (for > now...) That's only a palliative solution, as you noted. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de

[Solved]: Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas Stivers
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:57:52 AM -0400, Bradley Alexander wrote: > Note that there are also a number of methodologies which accomplish the same > thing using iptables...One such example is at > https://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2005-June/060914.html. TThe > he extension of this

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Thomas Stivers wrote: I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add iptables rules to drop anything from these scanning addresse

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Ugo Bellavance
michael wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 09:05 -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > >>I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh >>which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a >>package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add >>i

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:05 am, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh > which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a > package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add > iptables rules to dro

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread michael
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 09:05 -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote: > I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh > which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a > package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add > iptables rules to dro

stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas Stivers
I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add iptables rules to drop anything from these scanning addresses after something like 3 a