I set Haiku’s passwd to a 24-character password using upper/lower case letters and symbols, but still get what looks like several successful SSHD log-ins as Root within a couple minutes from “bots” I think. Not sure how to remedy it. The screenshot shows a bunch of them. One is myself connected via Putty, but there’s many more. Over time the list gets very long.
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What version of Haiku is this? It may just be failed authentications, and the sockets don’t time out in a reasonable amount of time (there were some bugs in Haiku that caused this on R1/beta4 and the nightlies for a while after it, but they should be solved on beta5.)
Hi Waddlesplash,
Thanks for your reply. We’re using R1/Beta4. I have a second computer running the same system at another location which doesn’t exhibit the multiple SSHD instances, even when I make it’s password super easy as a test (using “password” as the password) so I’m guessing the issue is too many “bots” are overwhelming the system on the first computer. The same thing happens with VNC on the first computer… a zillion log-in attempts and then VNC stops working. I’m looking into using a Raspberry Pi as a firewall between the router and the Haiku computer.
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Any reason you haven’t upgraded to beta5 yet? This problem should be solved there.
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Unfortunately updating to Beta5 crippled something so that Tunestacker couldn’t read file Attributes like “Comment” and “Genre” anymore. I tested updating to Beta5 on a backup hard drive of the system which has Tunetracker, Armyknife, Tunestacker, etc. The actual radio station’s system I left alone; don’t want to mess that one up, so I just test things on a backup drive.
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Ah, so this is a TuneTracker system. I don’t recall any open tickets about attribute reads not working properly anymore; perhaps @AGMS or @ttcoder might have an idea of what’s going wrong.
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It’s a great system; we started using Tunetracker 20 years ago back when it ran on BeOS, and over the years upgraded the versions when it used distros like Zeta and then Haiku.
Might be just a case of re-indexing or something, but I don’t understand indexing enough to troubleshoot it. When I tried the update, I had it update absolutely everything on the list so maybe a new library broke something. It would be nice to be able to update the latest Haiku releases without breaking Tunetracker apps, as Haiku progresses with bugfixes.
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