On Monday 11 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs performing > > dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go through > > /var/log/auth.log periodically and add the offending IPs to > > /etc/hosts.deny . That way, in future, the offending IPs cannot perform > > any dictionary attacks. I currently have around 85 IPs in this list > > (starting Apr 10, 2007) :-) > > > > You should also disable remote root logins to make the machine more > > secure. > > The best thing you can do is to disable password logins altogether. > Using public keys is much more secure and makes it *impossible* for a > dictionary attack to succeed.
Might be best idea. How does one do it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
