On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Eben King on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 01:00PM -0500:
>> Port 22 works, but I don't use that anymore (too many hack
>> attempts).
>
> A safe workaround for that is to disable passworded/PAM logins.
True, but I like to log in remotely. Sometimes (when I'm feeling frisky) I
even run X apps over that connection. I put SSH on an unclaimed port
(according to /etc/services). No serious hack attempts yet. I guess the
skript kiddies' tools look at 22 by their unchanged defaults.
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Throw a rock in the air
You'll hit someone guilty -- U2, _Zooropa_, "Dirty Day"
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