illegal user root user failed login attempts

[Peter Kropholler]

I run a server at home on port 22.
There are loads of illegal user attempts to login
every few days. As its at home I protect myself
by having only one user on the sshd AllowUsers
list and with a very strong password and no
admin/sysman priveleges.

So essentially every failed login attempt is illegal.

Is there any way to actually record what passwords
the hackers' scripts are trying? I am just really intrigued
to know what they are thinking might work.

I realize that it's not normally appropriate to log people's
passwords but in my case I am literally the only user
who will ever legitimately login to my machine
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Professor Peter H Kropholler
Department of Mathematics
University of Glasgow
University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QW
Tel +44 (0)141 330 4124
Fax +44 (0)141 330 4111
email p.h.kropholler at maths.gla.ac.uk
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