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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: ssh logins to lists.gnu.org
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Noah Slater |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: ssh logins to lists.gnu.org |
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Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:31:19 +0000 |
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 03:04:08PM -0500, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> We've seen a lot of ssh brute force attacks lately, and as you know lists is
> not the most modern system. We're going to do something about that: we are
> currently waiting for replacement hardware. In the mean time, we think it is
> still wise to avoid the whole ssh brute forcing problem by not making the
> port accessible from the whole internet to start out with.
If you restricted login to keys, and not passwords, wouldn't this do the same?
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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater