Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
3 years ago
It feels like you may be solved a problem that didn't need solving? If you fully disabled password authentication, there's nothing to tweak; you can just ignore the log spam and not block the IP addresses and ignore it and it'll be fine.
> If you fully disabled password authentication
It is not fully disabled, my dads account has a password for sftp.
Its covered more in part 1 (linked at the start of the blog post) but the repeated attempts at ssh'ing into my server actually killed sshd (which is how I found out about it).
The other problem is that this "server" is hosted on a residential connection in my computer room. This is just something I don't want to deal with and using a VPN fixes that since I do not need to deal with it, and its easy enough for my dad to use