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Re: shutting down dictionary attacks

Subject: Re: shutting down dictionary attacks
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 09:29:11 -0400
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:06:20AM -0500, Brian J. Woods wrote:
More info on the environment the pc's where on maybe?

Sure.  My OpenBSD PC has port 22 open for protocol 2 (per the sshd_config
I'd posted) and will accept only authorized RSA keys.  Apparently.

I'm on a cable network which is regularly scanned by kiddies for
weakness.  

My OS is OpenBSD 3.7-current, last updated June 24, and my ssh 
is 4.1, last updated April 11.

My /var/log/authlog was showing both the usual "admin" "guest" "root" 
attacks, and the occasional dictionary attack. The script being used by
these kiddies seems to force a password authentication, since its otherwise
turned off.  

I'm still getting attacks, so the addition of "KerberosOrLocalPasswd no"
didn't help.

Since I made the last update, I've also changed the LogLevel to DEBUG3.

Here's one of many of the latest attempts to break in shown in my authlog:

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Jul  3 08:23:38 jggimi sshd[28519]: Invalid user shell from 65.118.221.232
Jul  3 08:23:38 jggimi sshd[19291]: input_userauth_request: invalid user shell
Jul  3 08:23:38 jggimi sshd[19291]: Failed password for invalid user shell from 
65.118.221.232 port 29630 ssh2
Jul  3 08:23:38 jggimi sshd[19291]: Received disconnect from 65.118.221.232: 11:
 Bye Bye
Jul  3 08:23:39 jggimi sshd[22844]: Invalid user linux from 65.118.221.232
Jul  3 08:23:39 jggimi sshd[18991]: input_userauth_request: invalid user linux
Jul  3 08:23:39 jggimi sshd[18991]: Failed password for invalid user linux from 
65.118.221.232 port 29715 ssh2
Jul  3 08:23:39 jggimi sshd[18991]: Received disconnect from 65.118.221.232: 11:
 Bye Bye
Jul  3 08:23:40 jggimi sshd[5455]: Invalid user unix from 65.118.221.232
Jul  3 08:23:40 jggimi sshd[28488]: input_userauth_request: invalid user unix
Jul  3 08:23:40 jggimi sshd[28488]: Failed password for invalid user unix from 6
5.118.221.232 port 29791 ssh2
Jul  3 08:23:40 jggimi sshd[28488]: Received disconnect from 65.118.221.232: 11:
 Bye Bye
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