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Yes, this has been discussed in this mailing list some months ago. I |
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just don't thing there's any reason to become paranoid unless you |
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administer a box with lots of "dumb users". Because "dumb users" usualy |
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choose "dumb passwords", you'll proabably have to educate them or force |
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them to user better passwords. |
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Myself, I just use strong passwords and a different ssh port just to |
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keep my logs clean. |
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Brian G. Peterson wrote: |
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| I've noticed over the last few months that ssh attack scanning scripts |
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have |
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| been proliferating. The scripts attack using a common set of |
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usernames with |
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| weak password combinations, and result in a long line of log entries like: |
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