Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread thveillon.debian
Daniel Dalton a écrit : Hi, Does anyone know of a howto for debian describing how to setup a home ssh server (with sshd)? Thanks, Daniel. Hi, While it's true that installing ssh is as simple as using aptitude, you may find useful to know a bit more:

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Philp
thveillon.debian wrote: Daniel Dalton a écrit : Hi, Does anyone know of a howto for debian describing how to setup a home ssh server (with sshd)? Thanks, Daniel. Hi, While it's true that installing ssh is as simple as using aptitude, you may find useful to know a bit more:

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:43:21 + Kevin Philp ke...@cybercolloids.net wrote: If you set up a home ssh server and expose it to the internet you will get brute force password break in attempts so make sure you restrict who can log in very tightly and deny root login access as a minimum. We

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Philp
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:43:21 + Kevin Philp ke...@cybercolloids.net wrote: If you set up a home ssh server and expose it to the internet you will get brute force password break in attempts so make sure you restrict who can log in very tightly and deny root login access as a

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed January 28 2009, Kevin Philp wrote: Even easier and better add the following to your iptables firewall. This monitors your connections to the ssh port and drops the connection if they try more than 4 connections in 10 minutes. I have been using this for a while - works a treat.

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed January 28 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote: references at : http://www.la-samhna.de/library/brutessh.html http://www.ducea.com/2006/06/28/using-iptables-to-block-brute-force-attac ks / /sbin/iptables -A ssh-connection -i $EXT -p tcp --dport 22 -m recent --update --seconds 600

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Philp
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed January 28 2009, Kevin Philp wrote: Even easier and better add the following to your iptables firewall. This monitors your connections to the ssh port and drops the connection if they try more than 4 connections in 10 minutes. I have been using this for a while

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:00:37 + Kevin Philp ke...@cybercolloids.net wrote: A good package to install, to help with the brute force attacks is fail2ban. Even easier and better add the following to your iptables firewall. This monitors your connections to the ssh port and drops

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Philp
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:00:37 + Kevin Philp ke...@cybercolloids.net wrote: A good package to install, to help with the brute force attacks is fail2ban. Even easier and better add the following to your iptables firewall. This monitors your connections to the ssh

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Thanks very much to everyone that replied to my ssh question. That's some good information, and I'll go off and do my research. Thanks very much, it's greatly appreciated. Cheers, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Does anyone know of a howto for debian describing how to setup a home ssh server (with sshd)? Thanks, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/27/2009 09:15 PM, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a howto for debian describing how to setup a home ssh server (with sshd)? No need for a HOWTO (in Debian, at least). Local host named foo: # apt-get install ssh Remote system: C:\ putty foo -- Ron Johnson, Jr.