Tim Alberts wrote:
So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system.

What's a good way to deal with this?

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1. Change the default port
2. use only SSH protocol 2
3. Install some brute force protection which can automatically ban an IP on say 5 / 10 failed login attempts 4. ONLY allow SSH access from your IP, if it's static. Or signup for a DynDNS account, and then only allow SSH access from your DynDNS domain

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