14 Feb
2009
14 Feb
'09
9:14 p.m.
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:43:17 +0100
Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)kokkinizita.net> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:55:13PM +0100, Julien
Claassen wrote:
I changed the port sshd runs on because I got sick of the
clickety click as logs were written due to brute force login
attempts. Not an option for everyone but it did the trick
nicely for me. Port knocking is another option.
pete.
8226 ? Ss 0:00 sshd: unknown [priv]
8227 ? S 0:00 sshd: unknown [net]
Just before that I only saw "sshd
[accept]" and "sshd [net]".
Shutdown sshd and made new password and restarted sshd. Now it's the same.
Can I easily check where it's coming from and what it's doing. I don't see
anything besides those two lines. No other strange processes.
Someone is trying a ssh login - usually from the former
east block - and probably trying a list of user names
and passwords. Do (as root) tail -50 /var/log/secure
to see the show.
It happens here all the time. As long as you don't have
any easily guessed user/passwd combinations the danger
is limited, and closing your network connection for a
minute usually makes them go away. Configuring sshd to
allow only dsa authentication is better of course.