Increase in SSH attacks as of announcement of rtld bug

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200912021324.nB2DOc58001138 at lava.sentex.ca>, Mike Tancsa writes:
>At 07:51 AM 12/2/2009, Mohd Fazli Azran wrote:

>The only way to deal with them I found [...]

A very efficient measure:  Move your sshd to another port number.

You can configure the port in your .ssh/config file:

	Host foobar
		port 122

so you don't have to remember it.


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