How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server

Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by denrober on Sunday March 03, 2013 @10:00PM (#5316320)

My only thought is even with password auth. turned off hostile persons can still connect to the ssh daemon and might discover and unknown vulnerability or some type of dos. If you know someone is trouble why let them in even if you are wearing armor?

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by numbsafari on Sunday March 03, 2013 @10:04PM (#5316329)

It'd really suck if they could forge traffic from you that looked like a failed login attempt and that resulted in you getting banned.

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Re:How I spend my first 5 minutes on a server by anderiv on Sunday March 03, 2013 @10:17PM (#5316371)

That is why fail2ban allows you to configure a whitelisted IP (your office, VPN, etc.) that will never get banned.

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