good suggestion.. I limited the users and restricted root. does anyone know how to change the defualt "login as:" banner to something else? Gerald On 12/26/05, Mail List <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 26 December 2005 00:24, Gerald wrote: > > It looks like i'm getting a dictionary attack on my system. I moved > > ssh to another port instead of 22 in hopes that would put a halt to it > > > You probably don't want to advertise the port you chose either as per your > mail. > > You may also wish to set: > > PermitRootLogin no > AllowUsers gerald other1 other2 etc > > (i.e. limit to users you care about with known strong passwords or keys only > as someone else suggested). > > DUmb question - did you service sshd restart to make sure your changes were > picked up? > > \g/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- -Gerald
