SSHd
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Wed Aug 23 11:27:48 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 13:21 +0200, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>
>
> On 8/21/06, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said:
>
> > But really, it seems like the "can't get to a shell
> during/after an install"
> > can leave you stuck in a number of cases, not just this
> one....
>
> It's just that realistically, changing this would essentially
> mean
> "any headless machine will not be able to be logged into
> without kickstart
> machinations". I don't think that's an improvement.
>
> Agreed. Remote login is very useful to finish an install - or if other
> mechanisms that normally do work don't.
>
>
> The problem, that some bots try and try and try again on the ssh root
> account, would best be dealth with with a default configuration that
> blocks an IP for some time if enough unsuccessful attempts are made.
installing denyhosts by default sounds reasonable ;)
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