Re: ssh attempts

[Leif Ericksen <leife () dls net>]

Lock down your box a little more...  Enable TCPWrappers in the very
least.  IF they are able to hit your system like that via SSH it is
obvious that you are not blocking.  This is common.  My firewall logs
show and have shown attempts to ssh (This is for a personal system)
they get stopped at the firewall because they are not coming from the
correct IP address(es) Incidentally the ones I see hitting my firewall
cam from China, Korea, and Taiwan for the most part, least wise that is
what the IP indicated as long as it was not spoofed.  

Before I locked down my firewall to IP I would see the rejects because
of Wrappers.

If the system is on the net LOCK IT DOWN.

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Leif Ericksen 
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 11:35 +0100, Emilio Casbas wrote:
> I´ve noticed that several Linux Machines I have running are getting 
> scanned via ssh for
> multiple accounts such as "guest webmaster mysql info shell apache 
> test..." and many others,
> the log show:
>
> Jan  3 01:31:08 machine sshd2[22087]: WARNING: DNS lookup failed for 
> "X.X.X.233".
> Jan  3 01:31:10 machine sshd2[22087]: password authentication failed. 
> Login to account webmaster not allowed or account non-existent.
> Jan  3 01:31:13 machine sshd2[21757]: LoginGraceTime exceeded.
>
> as well there are attempts to connect with root login, with the log 
> message show as:
>
> WARNING: DNS lookup failed for "X.X.X.233".
> Jan  3 01:17:53 machine sshd2[21651]: root login denied for user 'root'.
>
> Obviously, We don´t have accounts with that name on our systems, and the 
> root account
> is disabled for ssh, but I would like to know which software can do this 
> scan type, because
> while it's running, the machine proccesses grow too much.
>
> Thanks.
> Emilio C.
>
>
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