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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
