James A. Peltier (jpe...@sfu.ca)

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1) James A. Peltier Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

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Fail2Ban is a good brute force protector. It works in conjunction with IPTables to block IPs that...

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Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Tim Alberts wrote:
>> So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I 
>> think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world 
>> has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system.
>>
>> What's a good way to deal with this?
>>
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> 1. Change the default port
> 2. use only SSH protocol 2
> 3. Install some brute force protection which can automatically ban an IP 
> on say 5 / 10 failed login attempts
> 4. ONLY allow SSH access from your IP, if it's static. Or signup for a 
> DynDNS account, and then only allow SSH access from your DynDNS domain
> 

Fail2Ban is a good brute force protector.  It works in conjunction with 
IPTables to block IPs that are "attacking" for a said duration of time. :)


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2) James A. Peltier [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 on PS3

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Hi All, Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3? I would like to look at...

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Hi All,

Does anyone here on the list have CentOS 5.1 running on a PS3?  I would 
like to look at integrating a couple of PS3 nodes into our cluster for 
it's ability to use the Cell processor inside and was wondering if 
anyone had any experiences.
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3) James A. Peltier Re: [CentOS] Send in your favorite CentOS slogan today

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CentOS: Enterprise tested. Manager Approved. CentOS: Just like Jiffy(tm)

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Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:
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> On 03/01/2008 02:16 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
>>     
>
> Hi Dag
>
>   
>> The CentOS project is looking for more slogans that may end up on
>> promotional material (eg media, flyers, posters or stickers). We already
>> collected a few funny, ironic, sarcastic or even distasteful ones.
>>
>> Feel free to visit our Slogans wiki page for a good laugh or rude
>> offenses and add your own slogan by sending them to this thread.
>>     
>
> here my crap
>
> CentOS: RHELly without expensive and useless support center
> CentOS: ISV and IHV testing and certification without price tag
> CentOS: The far spreaded and popular RHEL
> CentOS: Without underpinning contract, but with smart community
> CentOS: High-available cluster computing for free
> CentOS: Enterprise-grade quality for zero bucks
> CentOS: Life without kernel panic, aka bluescreen
> CentOS: The dot in Web 2.0
> CentOS: The better choice
> CentOS: Because security matters
> CentOS: Not a question but an answer!
>
> cheers
> Simon
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CentOS: Enterprise tested.  Manager Approved.
CentOS: Just like Jiffy(tm)
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4) James A. Peltier Re: [CentOS] Send in your favorite CentOS slogan today

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Glad to see this was taken better than my rhymes with Dead Rat one. ;)

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Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, James A. Peltier wrote:
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>> CentOS.
>> The best compatibility, none of the costs.
>
> Nice one ! I also added:
>
>     CentOS: Full compatibility, empty price tag
>
> which is a bit snappier.

Glad to see this was taken better than my rhymes with Dead Rat one. ;)
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5) James A. Peltier Re: [CentOS] Send in your favorite CentOS slogan today

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CentOS. When you need enterprise uptime, without enterprise pricing.

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Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
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> CentOS,
>
>             It's all about the community.
>
> -Ross
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [email protected: centos-bo...@centos.org] <centos-bounces@centos.org>
> To: [email protected: c...@centos.org] <centos@centos.org>
> Sent: Fri Feb 29 20:16:22 2008
> Subject: [CentOS] Send in your favorite CentOS slogan today
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The CentOS project is looking for more slogans that may end up on
> promotional material (eg media, flyers, posters or stickers). We already
> collected a few funny, ironic, sarcastic or even distasteful ones.
>
> Feel free to visit our Slogans wiki page for a good laugh or rude
> offenses and add your own slogan by sending them to this thread.
>
> See:
>         http://wiki.centos.org/Promo/Slogans
>
> And who knows, yours may end up somewhere ? If it gets selected, you win
> free CentOS updates for a whole month !! So get started ;)
>
>
> Disclaimer: Ideas contributed to this thread are considered free to be
> reused. Otherwise do NOT submit them to a public mailinglist :) I will be
> adding them to the wiki.
>
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