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. -- A horse is a horse, of course, of course, And no one can talk to a horse, of course, Unless, of course, the horse, of course, Is the famous Mr. Ed! http://www.usenix.org.uk - http://irc.is-cool.net