denyhosts quandry

[Tyler Littlefield]

that would kill win SCP, which is my local editor, or I'd be up for that.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler at tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Brannon" <cmbrannon at cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry


>> I am running denyhosts on my linux system, to try to keep out attackers 
>> from
>> running a password cracker on my ssh.
>
> There is a really easy way to protect ssh from password attacks.
> Only allow public-key authentication.
> Require that people authenticate with a key when connecting, and disallow
> password-based authentication.
> See your local ssh_config manpage.
>
> -- Chris
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