Re: SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Always Learning wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:01 -0500, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Always Learning wrote:
>
>> > You haven't seen my long and difficult (for others) password
>> (uppercase, lowercase, and digits). It is unlikely ever to succumb to
brute
>> > force. :-)
>>
>> Ah, no. Where can you log in as root from? If it's anywhere outside the
>> intranet, bad, bad, bad.
>
> Blush, blush .... access is on a non-standard port and then restricted
> to a few IP addresses.  I don't want my servers taken over by others.
>
Security through obscurity doesn't work. Are you familiar with nmap?
Restricted to a few IP addresses is good; the fewer the better.
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         mark


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