MORE SSH Hacking: heads-up

[Chris Hewitt]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 20:21, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 14:17, Jenkins, Jeremiah wrote:
> > Not /etc/secure , /var/log/secure....man, I can tell it's friday
> > 
> This was in my logs last night at 11.56pm.
> 
> Aug  1 23:56:28 neuromancer sshd[22962]: Illegal user test from 203.185.29.89
> Aug  1 23:56:30 neuromancer sshd[22962]: Failed password for illegal user test from 203.185.29.89 port 40688 ssh2
> Aug  1 23:56:34 neuromancer sshd[23055]: Illegal user guest from 203.185.29.89
> Aug  1 23:56:37 neuromancer sshd[23055]: Failed password for illegal user guest from 203.185.29.89 port 40779 ssh2

I'm getting these once every day or so (I'm in the UK). I only allow
ssh2, disallow root, there is only one user allowed in and that is with
a non-trivial username and a non-trivial password. 

Chris