[Lvlug] Re: Finally, someone's trying to hack in. :-)

[Faber Fedor]

On 20/12/05 21:25 -0500, Mark wrote:
> I've been waiting for this day so I suppose I should have been better prepared 
> however I am *currently* under attack and someone is running a brute for 
> dictionary attack against my sshd.
> 
> What should I do? ;-)

You do have an AllowUSers directive in sshd_config, right?

You should also disallow passwords and use ssh keys, but if you're
passwords are strong enough...

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