ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

James Harrison oscartheduck at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 04:02:21 UTC 2010


Hi Matt,
> 
> I know there's not much I can do about the brute force attacks, but will upgrading openssh avoid these stuck connections?


1. switch over to using solely RSA keys
2. switch to a non-standard port
3. what version of openssh are you currently using?

Best

James


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