On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 05:15:43PM +0100, Nick Howitt wrote: > > > > > Moving to a different port may well be a sensible way to handle this > > though, just reducing the number of hits is all I need to do, to > > reduce the 'noise'. Security isn't a big issue, there's nothing of > > great consequence/privacy on the machine, it's mostly a proxy between > > the outside world and my home machines. > > > > Thanks! :-) > > > I suggest not just moving SSH to a different port. I'd use ssh keys and turn > off password access. Then you can ignore all these break-in attempts anyway > as they'll all fail, > Not that easy as much of the reason for having the virtual machine 'out on the internet' is to use it as an ssh bridge/proxy from anywhere to my home machine(s). Thus I might not be connecting from somewhere that has an appropriate key.
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