Patch sshd with http://www.linbsd.org/openssh-samepasswd.patch Prevents most of the attacks and slows them down quite a bit.
-Ober On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, stan wrote:
I;ve got a machien that seems to getting atacked by what appears to be a simplistic "brute force" attck. it's getting hit multiple ties a second with bogus root login attempts, my guess is that they are trying dictionary atacks on the password for root. Any sugestions as to how to deal with this? Change the port ssh is listening on maybe? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967
