Christopher Hilton wrote: > If it's at all possible switch to using public keys for authentication > with ssh and disallow password authentication. This completely stops > the brute forcing attacks from filling up your periodic security mail. Are you sure about that? I only allow PublickeyAuthentication ssh2 connections but I get lots of security mail messages like:
Nov 16 01:44:08 maxwell sshd[70067]: Invalid user marcos from 202.54.49.7 Nov 16 01:44:23 maxwell sshd[70067]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for 49-7.broadband.vsnl.net.in failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT! Graham _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
