Luiz Eduardo Roncato Cordeiro writes: >Probably, what you have seen is a force brute attack against your >sshd. Unfortunately, this kind of attack still works.
My thanks to all who have responded. I am glad to know this isn't more sinister than it appears to be. It did make me get religion and fix all the Linux systems I have control over so that one can not successfully log in as root with any password even though I choose strong passwords. Better to log in as you and su -. _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"