Re: annoying brute force attack attempt using ssh

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:41 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:

"jeff emminger" <jemminger@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

isn't password authentication insecure?  why not set
"PasswordAuthentication no" and use ssh keys, and maybe port-knocking
too

My feeling exactly.  You have no control over how stupid a password
users will pick.  The only control you have is to not allow passwords
in the first place and insist on at least a 1k-bit (hopefully random)
key.

Then you just have to hope the users' machines aren't vulnerable ...

poc

Or at least they use a pass-phrase protected key, and a good phrase.

Mikkel
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