Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

[Greg Shikhman <cornmander@gmail.com>]

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Well, when one of my servers got brute forced it was 5+ computers doing it 
at a time in 10 second intervals...

On 8/26/05, Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> On 8/26/05, Fernando Meira <fmeira@gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> >  
> > You're lacking optimism... Of course the brute-force attack was not 
> > supposed to be done remotely! You can pull passwd to your local machine and 
> > the let your computer handle it without interruptions. If some proprieties 
> > of the password are known beforehand, then sooner would be a matter of hours 
> > and later a couple of days. This is not even putting into the game some 
> > distributed computing... 
> > 
> > 
> True, but if you use shadow to store your passwords your in much better 
> shape since the average hacker can't get a hold of the root owned shadow 
> file.
> 
> -Mike 
> 
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> ________________________________
> Michael E. Crute
> Software Developer
> SoftGroup Development Corporation
> 
> Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware.
> "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?" 
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