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From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:47:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5AEE60B435E84DD69C7194E9D481EFC9@tdsdev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090320024145.VCR21373.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>

that would kill win SCP, which is my local editor, or I'd be up for that.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Brannon" <cmbrannon@cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry


>> I am running denyhosts on my linux system, to try to keep out attackers 
>> from
>> running a password cracker on my ssh.
>
> There is a really easy way to protect ssh from password attacks.
> Only allow public-key authentication.
> Require that people authenticate with a key when connecting, and disallow
> password-based authentication.
> See your local ssh_config manpage.
>
> -- Chris
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Tyler Littlefield
 ` Chris Brannon
   ` Tyler Littlefield [this message]
 ` James Homuth
   ` Kirk Reiser
     ` Tom Moore
     ` Tyler Littlefield
     ` James Homuth
       ` Tyler Littlefield
         ` James Homuth
           ` Tyler Littlefield
             ` James Homuth
               ` Tyler Littlefield
                 ` James Homuth
                   ` Tyler Littlefield
               ` farhan
                 ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Gregory Nowak
               ` Tyler Littlefield
   ` Tyler Littlefield
   ` Tyler Littlefield
     ` James Homuth
       ` Tyler Littlefield
     ` Jayson Smith
       ` Tyler Littlefield

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