[Tfug] Stopping repeated login attempts

Zack Williams zdwzdw at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 07:21:42 MST 2010


> I agree with what others have said here. For ~2 years now I have monitored
> the logs for my current employer. We run sshd on a non standard port and I
> have not seen one failed login attempt. Non standard port along with only
> allowing ssh login with keys has worked really well for us.

+1

Also, you can make SSH only allow auth using keys - that's what I do
on some servers I run.

- Zack




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