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Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default

From William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default
Date 2014-10-10 15:34 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2014-10-10, Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>
> "Bit Twister" <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message 
> news:slrnm3e6v1.g24.BitTwister@wb.home.test...
>> On Thu, 9 Oct 2014 19:23:11 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>> I can't find in fedora like there seems to be in other distros a config 
>>> file
>>> for ssh.
>>
>> It should not be hard to find, try
>> locate ssh | grep conf | grep etc
>>
>>> There is the sshd that constrols the service. People are trying to
>>> hack me. I did use this to turn it off.
>>>
>>> service sshd stop
>>>
>>> Which in turn caused systemctl to deactivate ssh(d).
>>
>> No it did not deactivate it, It did shut down the sshd service/daemon.
>> Next boot, sshd will be running again.
>>
>>> Not can I turn this off by default?
>>
>> Yes,  "systemctl disable sshd," disables sshd from being started during 
>> boot.
>>
>> You can still do a systemctl start sshd when you need it to run then
>> systemctl stop sshd when done.
>
>     I logged on the other day and the shell told me that there was over 400 
> attempts by a certain IP address to connect. It must've been while I was 
> using the machine and didn't notice it.
>
> Bill
>
>

I have a script which look in /var/log/messages for login attempts and
if it finds more than 5 for root, or 10 for another user, it enters that
IP into /etc/hosts.allow with a deny flag. 

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fedora 20 disabling ssh by default "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-09 19:23 -0400
  Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2014-10-09 23:35 +0000
    Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> - 2014-10-09 20:25 -0400
      Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2014-10-10 01:11 +0000
      Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-10 15:32 +0000
        Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> - 2014-10-10 17:59 -0400
    Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-09 23:13 -0400
      Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-10 08:50 +0000
        Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2014-10-10 09:10 +0000
          Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-10 10:16 +0100
            Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-10 20:05 -0400
              Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-11 07:47 +0100
          Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-10 09:26 +0000
            Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-10 11:00 +0100
            Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2014-10-10 10:14 +0000
              Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-10 10:29 +0000
            Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-10 16:27 -0400
          Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-10 15:41 +0000
            Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-10 20:03 -0400
              Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2014-10-10 20:28 -0500
              Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-11 02:52 +0000
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-11 17:03 +0000
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-11 14:38 -0400
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2014-10-11 18:05 -0400
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-10-11 23:18 +0100
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-11 23:43 +0000
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-11 22:34 +0000
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2014-10-11 19:13 -0400
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-12 00:30 +0000
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Wayne <nospam@all.invalid> - 2014-10-11 21:27 -0400
                Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-12 02:14 +0000
              Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-11 03:59 +0000
      Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-10 15:34 +0000
  Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-10 15:31 +0000
  Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Andreas Kohlbach <oct14.5.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-10-10 16:06 -0400
    Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-10-10 20:00 -0400
      Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-10-11 17:02 +0000
      Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default Andreas Kohlbach <oct14.5.ankman@spamgourmet.com> - 2014-10-11 16:35 -0400
  Re: fedora 20 disabling ssh by default HakTar <FiteWinTel@gmail.com> - 2014-10-30 07:34 +0000

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