SSH2

Chris W. Parker cparker at swatgear.com
Thu Apr 7 20:13:38 UTC 2005


Nathaniel Hall <mailto:halln at otc.edu>
    on Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:34 AM said:

> No, it does not.  The thinking is to make it harder for somebody to
> figure out a username and password for SSH login and then trying to
> figure out a password to su - to root.  Since it takes more time to
> figure out usernames and passwords than just passwords, you are more
> likely to discover the break in attempt.

Oh ok. I understand.



Chris.




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