annoying brute force attack attempt using ssh

[Manuel Aróstegui]

El jue, 15-05-2008 a las 14:41 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht escribió:
> "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.

Although, you can force them to create passwords with numbers, something
like, for instance,  at least 2 numbers and one alphanumeric characters.
That would help a wee bit to avoid easy passwords that may be broken
with a basic brute force attack.

Manuel.
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