SSH user without any rights on a server

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jun 24 22:06:01 UTC 2011


On 06/24/2011 11:58 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 6/23/2011 7:01 PM, Frank wrote:
>> - sshd is listening on port XXXXX instead of port 22
> 
> Port scanning fixes that obscurity. Don't bother trying to obscure now
> days, they will find it if they want to. This is why on our servers we
> leave it as port 22 and then ban ip's as they come.  It's easier for us
> to mix fail2ban with custom scripts and remove IP's from the ban list
> than it is to try and be clever in a world where obscurity is not clever
...
I quite like denyhosts:
http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/






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