ssh2

roland roland at cat.be
Wed Sep 24 18:00:58 UTC 2008


On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:12:24 +0200, Aldo Foot <lunixer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:04 AM, roland <roland at cat.be> wrote:
>> I just wonder why this person/hacker is still trying to login with root  
>> and
>> other names. So he must have been unsuccessful the first time. Now root
>> login is blocked and the root passwd is  changed.
>>
>> From what you are saying I can understand that I should reinstall the
>> server, even if he is not successfully login in again?
>
> If the root password is changed once again, then it's clear someone is
> mocking you.
> Just unplug that system already and reinstall. Upgrade to a more recent
> OS if you can. Go CentOS if Fedora is too hard for you.
> But more importantly learn about tcpwrappers and system security  
> otherwise
> it does not matter what effort you put into this thing. You must learn
> on your own.
>
I was not clear enough,
I did changed the password for root and I blocked remote root login.
Now he is still trying to login with root, but unsuccessfully. So probably  
he did not finished his job.

roland




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