Heads up: Brute force attacks on the rise recently

rgheck rgheck at comcast.net
Thu Oct 29 13:59:27 UTC 2009


On 10/28/2009 07:44 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:03:29 -0500
> Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>
>    
>> -Make sure your root password is not a dictionary word.
>>      
> Better yet, make sure you only allow public key login from
> outside the trusted local network. I've been setting up my
> sshd that way for a long time now.
>
>    
Can you show how to do this? I only know how to make the choice globally.

rh





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