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They simply try password auth, and fail with a message that password auth is off. Constantly. All the time.

• purple-again 9y ago
  Set up a non standard port. This will stop over night.
  • kuschku 9y ago
    It has stopped now (I simply removed port 22 from the whitelist except for connections originating with my home ISP, which is a local ISP where abuse reports actually work)
    • dcbadacd 9y ago
      Have you tried port knocking as a way of temporarily whitelisting the right IPs?