Re: Re: Any update on SSH brute force attempts?

[Ron DuFresne <dufresne () winternet com>]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Dave Ewart wrote:

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> On Friday, 15.10.2004 at 17:53 -0400, Jay Libove wrote:
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> > What are you doing/changing about your SSH configurations to reduce
> > the possibility of these attacks finding any kind of hole in the
> > OpenSSH software (that's what I run, so that's the only version I'm
> > particularly concerned about) ?  Are you doing anything at all?
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> Attacks on my system seemed to be restricted to root, so I set the
> 'PermitRootLogin without-password' option, so that no root logins using
> a password were possible - must be RSA key.  I also switched to
> non-standard port.


Why not just disallow root logins directly, and force someone with a valid
user account to su after getting a shell?  It was my impression that was
more standard, and if one has to allow remote root directly, at least
restrict it to specific systems and users.  All the places I have worked
for forced the su after shell to root..


Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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