[OmniOS-discuss] OpenSSH logging control

Joshua M. Clulow josh at sysmgr.org
Fri Feb 10 07:11:33 UTC 2017


On 9 February 2017 at 18:58, Bob Friesenhahn
<bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> OpenSSH is even noisier than SunSSH.  For a machine with ssh access from the
> Internet, the console becomes unusable and even the logging to a file might
> eventually wear out an SSD.

For what it's worth, moving the SSH port up to a high number made my
logs almost silent.  Most of the cheap (and thus plentiful) scans are
on port 22 only.


Cheers.

-- 
Joshua M. Clulow
UNIX Admin/Developer
http://blog.sysmgr.org


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