Continually-respawning sshd

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On 25 June 2010 15:15, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>> Liam Proven wrote:
>>> Is there any "official" way of permanently killing this?
>>>
>>> As in here...
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1517554
>> Check your logs...is someone trying to break in?
> 
> No, we have several boxes doing this, internally on the company LAN.
> We just want no inbound ports open at all by default on client
> machines, that's all.
> 

Just read the forum thread.

Try 'touch /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run' and then '/etc/init.d/ssh stop'

It should no longer run.