Shri Shrikumar: > > 1. Report each ip address that does this. However, a lot of them seems > to be from asia with no proper abuse@ address to contact. Additionally, > this can be very time consuming.
I do not think you achieve much by doing this. Doing this automatically, as you suggested below, further reduces your chances. > 2. Change the port number that ssh uses to something else. This has the > annoyance that I need to pass the new port number in each time I want to > log-in. OpenSSH's client reads ~/.ssh/config where you can put these (and a lot of other) settings. Apparently, this isn't widely known, but 'man 5 ssh_config' is enlightening, especially since you can create short aliases for your hosts and different settings for the same host with different aliases. J. -- The houses of parliament make me think of school bullies. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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