annoying brute force attack attempt using ssh

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:41 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> "jeff emminger" <jemminger at gmail.com> 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