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* Close the ssh connection and verify that the port 20808 is no longer listening.
* Answer the Investigation 6 question in your lab log book.
=== Investigation 7: How do you make sshd more secure. ===
{{Admon/note | Note! | Complete this investigation on your fedora2 and fedora1 VM's.}}
{{Admon/note | | Anytime you configure your computer to allow logins from the network you are leaving yourself vulnerable to potential unauthorized access by so called "hackers". Running the sshd service is a fairly common practice but care must be taken to make things more difficult for those hackers that attempt to use "brute force" attacks to gain access to your system. Hackers use their knowledge of your system and many password guesses to gain access. They know which port is likely open to attack (TCP:22), the administrative account name (root), all they need to do is to "guess" the password.}}