[ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt

[Jacob Mansfield]

any way to do that through putty?

On 28 August 2010 18:13, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28/08/10 17:37, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> > If the VNC Server is on the same machine that you are ssh'ing into,
> > then the command would look as follows:
> >
> > ssh -C -L 5900:localhost:5900<user>@<destination_server>  -N&
>
> We do this to manage some of our customers' servers. We also use
> private/public key pairs, and configure ssh so so no logins are allowed
> with passwords.
>
> Also, I concur with an earlier post and recommend installing denyhosts.
>
> sudo apt-get install denyhosts
>
> Very useful against bruteforce attacks.
>
> Al
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