On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 2:45:37 AM MST Björn Persson wrote:
> If an attacker guesses your passphrase, then it's your weak passphrase
> that allows them to break in.

No. Having it wide open to the network means it can be broken, even through 
brute force if necessary.

> (That said, I'd be in favor of tightening the default SSHD
> configuration to allow only public key authentication, as long as it
> would still be possible to gain initial access to a freshly installed
> headless server.)

That would make it hard for "our moms and dads" to use, so I'm not sure that's 
a good idea.

> I have no idea what you mean by "running local".

A program that binds either your currently configured interface(s) or all 
interfaces by default. These are not at all uncommon. Some of them are 
designed for local access only, and yet they still bind all interfaces.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com>
Splentity
https://splentity.com/

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