Re: sshd: Did not receive identification string

[Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, mike wrote:

> Hello
>
> What does this log entry mean?
>
> Mar 23 09:44:17 xxx sshd[7920]: Did not receive identification string from 218.53.214.11
> Mar 23 09:47:31 xxx sshd[7925]: Did not receive identification string from 218.53.214.11

This is basically someone connecting to the port. Try doing telnet xxx 22
and you will see the same result

> Question #2: How to move sshd to some higher port?


You can move to a different port if you edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

There is a line that says Port 22

change it to whatever

/etc/init.d/ssh restart

Rgds

Rus
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