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zinekeller on Sept 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: AS13335 doing SSH scanning

Not to disappoint you, but except for logging SSH honeypots are becoming useless (most bots automatically disconnect when they detect a long login banner).

sudobash1 on Sept 25, 2021 [–]

So should I add a long banner to my server to disguise it as a honey pot, just in case?

zinekeller on Sept 26, 2021 | [–]

I mean, I'm not sure that you can do that with OpenSSH though (short of recompiling it, which I do not recommend unless you're a company).

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