Originally Posted by monaro

Thank you for your reply on the topic, I notice that on weekends there are more access attempts than on weekdays. I'll have to take some further measures to eliminate the potential of a server take over.

Here is a look at latest log watch;

sshd:
Invalid Users:
Unknown Account: 14975 Time(s)
Authentication Failures:
root ( blanked out ): 156 Time(s)

Thanks for your input.
Mark