brute force ssh attack
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Apr 27 21:13:45 UTC 2005
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:56:38AM -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> >there are numerous brute force ssh attacks in the web.
> >I was quite curious, and for fun, I created the typical
> >user accounts and set easy to guess passwords....
> Generally, very bad idea. Unless you know exactly what you are doing,
> which you obviously don't.
What's the harm? I mean, assuming you're planning on doing a limited,
controlled experiment?
> You don't just unplug network cable. You wipe off machine and reinstall
> it from scratch. Simple as that.
Sure. But it doesn't hurt to investigate what happened. It's educational.
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