anders comments on Brute force protection

[–] anders@rytter.me [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

@Pacmanlives
Couldn't you just disable root login in the sshd config?

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[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Oh all of my configs are deny root ssh login or without-password. I noticed a significant decrease in scans when returning a root prompt when I did that. This was also in the mid 2000s so who knows how things would be in this day in age for a reduction in scans

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[–] anders@rytter.me [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

@Pacmanlives
So it was a fake root prompt which tricked the bots into believing that they logged in successfully but in reality the prompt could do nothing on the system?

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[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Correct

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