[Discuss] Reading logwatch e-mails

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

I recently started actually looking at logwatch e-mails I had been 
ignoring. These machines have sshd listening on the open internet, and 
man, there are a lot of failed ssh logins.

7924 seems like a lot for one day, for an obscure, rather new host. A 
different machine that has been around much longer, but on a lower 
bandwidth connection, got only 952; probably be in a more obscure block 
of addresses, too.

I know there are people who hate seeing that going on, but I think it is 
cute. Hardly any of the users are capable of logging in at all, and the 
ones that can have good passwords that cannot be brute forced at sshd 
rates. They aren't going to get in this way.

-kb