Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Gerard Seibert wrote: Reko Turja wrote: Moving your sshd port somewhere else than 22 - the prepackaged cracking programs don't scan ports, just blindly try out the default port - with determined/skilled attacker it's different matter entirely though. Security through

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-15 Thread Alexander Mogilny
On 15 янв. 2007, at 19:05, Oliver Fromme wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Reko Turja wrote: Moving your sshd port somewhere else than 22 - the prepackaged cracking programs don't scan ports, just blindly try out the default port - with determined/skilled attacker it's different matter

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:53:04 -0800 Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, please, PLEASE RTFM. If that's too much to ask, try taking a class, hiring a consultant, or using a more user-friendly OS. I have been a user of FreeBSD for 8 years and it is very friendly to me...not sure

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
VeeJay wrote: I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned? Could you please advise me what to do and how can I make my box more secure? Jan 9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for bbs-83-179.189.218.on-nets.com [218.189.179.83] failed -

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:39:30 +0100 Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - enforce key authentication From memory, you still get the 'user unknown' messages if you have only key auth. - restrict access to certain users or groups of users I would say, idem here. - deny direct access as

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:53:47 +1100 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would add to limit the number of passwords retries - so if they want to hammer you, at least they'll have to try a new connection. Of course, this leaves you open to a DOS ... but , well, i guess you are still open

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-13 Thread Anuj Singh
Hiee, Greetings, I tried port knocking thing with Linux box, Port knocking is a technique whereby attempting to connect to port A enables access to port B from that same host. Port knocking can be the solution for this. Tried with Linux iptables only, I wonder if the similar thing can be done

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-13 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please, please, PLEASE RTFM. If that's too much to ask, try taking a class, hiring a consultant, or using a more user-friendly OS. FreeBSD *is* user friendly. The simple (and fun to watch!) solution involves using PF (not sure if this can be easily

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned? Could you please advise me what to do and how can I make my box more secure? Jan 9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for bbs-83-179.189.218.on-nets.com

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Reko Turja
From: VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:43 PM Subject: Please Help! How to STOP them... I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned? Could you please advise me what to do and how

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread VeeJay
Thanks Reko Just couple of more questions... On 1/12/07, Reko Turja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 11:43 PM Subject: Please Help! How to STOP them... I am

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 VeeJay wrote: Thanks Reko Just couple of more questions... On 1/12/07, Reko Turja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread VeeJay
What should be ENABLED and what should be DISABLED? # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.74 2006/07/19 13:07:10 dtucker Exp $ # $FreeBSD: src/crypto/openssh/sshd_config,v 1.42.2.4 2006/11/11 00:51:28 des Exp $ # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See # sshd_config(5)

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Giessel
On Friday, January 12, 2007, at 01:34PM, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean here? Remember to keep ssh1 disabled as well as direct root access into ssh from the ssh config file. How to disable SSH1 and How to stop direct root access into ssh, where to change? Sounds like you

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Friday January 12, 2007 at 04:54:37 (PM) Reko Turja wrote: I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned? Could you please advise me what to do and how can I make my box more secure? Jan 9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Jay Chandler
VeeJay wrote: I am reading many hundred lines similar to below mentioned? Could you please advise me what to do and how can I make my box more secure? Jan 9 17:54:42 localhost sshd[5130]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for bbs-83-179.189.218.on-nets.com [218.189.179.83] failed -