On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:03:52PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/1/16 Jeff Soules <sou...@gmail.com>:
> >> While in general I agree, in this case you could say that I am sitting
> >> here as a honeypot. No legitimate users will try connecting via SSH on
> >> port 22, and certainly not over the big bad internet. The only reason
> >> that I have sshd running here is for another machine on the LAN to ssh
> >> in on a different port.
> >
> > That would seem to reduce the difficulties associates with logging
> > random users' passwords.  However, that makes me wonder what the point
> > is -- are you just curious as to how random crackers start their
> > dictionary attacks?
> >
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Besides, if you're only SSHing on the lan, you might be better off
> > from a security standpoint by just dropping foreign-IP packets to 22
> > and whatever SSH port you actually use.  If there is no legitimate
> > traffic, why even give attackers a login prompt?
> >
> 
> Just to see what they are doing.


why not mix the to, use fail2ban to instead of dropping the packets
sending the packets to a honeypot sshd and then log the passwords

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