Re: Find out host of IP
On Monday 11 June 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> > Not exactly answering your question. But I do see a lot of IPs performing
> > dictionary attacks on my machine. What I do is go through
> > /var/log/auth.log periodically and add the offending IPs to
> > /etc/hosts.deny . That way, in future, the offending IPs cannot perform
> > any dictionary attacks. I currently have around 85 IPs in this list
> > (starting Apr 10, 2007) :-)
> >
> > You should also disable remote root logins to make the machine more
> > secure.
>
> The best thing you can do is to disable password logins altogether.
> Using public keys is much more secure and makes it *impossible* for a
> dictionary attack to succeed.
Might be best idea. How does one do it?
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