I guess the best approach would be to consider using Port Knock http://www.portknocking.org/
Cheers, Brian On 10/9/08, Phill O'Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone > I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to > only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I did this because I > was getting > a lot of idiots from eastern Europe and Russia tring to crack my server. > > This has been ok but now is prooving to be too restrictive. Can I get the > server to force certificate based logins only?? If so how do I do it?? Is > this the > best approach anyway?? > > > Regards > Phill O'Flynn > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
