Re: On defense of the sshd crackers

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007, T o n g wrote:
> I used to turn on my sshd just in case that I need to ssh back into my
> box. But recently, I noticed that whenever I turn it on, almost instantly,
> there will be a cracker attempting cracking into my sshd:

Drop password logins of any type in ssh completely, use only crypto keys.
Also, explictly tell sshd the users which should be able to login, it will
deny all others, no matter what.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh