On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:55:12 +0200
Tomasz Baranowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You can change the port number in /etc/ssh/sshd_config . It's 100%
> effective against that kind of bots.

Some intelligent scripts look at tcp responses to port scans, ssh
responds with SSH-2.0, which isn't too hard to identify. I don't know if
changing the greeting would break the protocol, but I suspect it might
break certain clients.

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