This is a personal server (router/ftp/sftp/ssh home server), and I'm the only one that uses SSH. Changing the port, however "non-standard" it may be, fixed my problem. RSA auth is enabled by default in the sshd server, by the way.
# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep RSAAuthentication #RSAAuthentication yes #RhostsRSAAuthentication no # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication On 5/27/05, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 27 May 2005 12:16, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > > > Changing port is not about security, it save cpu (that can be true using > > RSA auth only too). > > The question, though, is whether changing the port is worth the hassle. If > you're getting 1000 SSH attempts per day, and each connection takes .5 > seconds of CPU time to fail, then you have to decide whether it's worth 500 > seconds of saved time per day to move to a nonstandard setup. That may > very well be the case, but a lot of people would probably decide that it's > not. > -- > Kirk Strauser > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
