[svlug] ssh attacks - ideas

William R Ward bill at wards.net
Sat Oct 23 17:18:02 PDT 2004


Anthony Ettinger writes:
>What difference does the port make? I don't see how
>this has any baring on whehter or not your machine is
>secure.

Using a nonstandard port should reduce the number of attempts made.
I've been getting lots of futile attempts that are filling up logs,
which is why I brought up the issue.

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