On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:54:13PM -0400, swilly wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:22, Alexander Schrijver > <alexander.schrij...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's a great way to keep someone out of their own system. > > Huh? Wouldn't securely backing up the RSA keys prevent this? If you > are mindful enough to use keys in the first place and don't back up > such critical data, wouldn't you deserve to be locked out until > someone can cart over an IP KVM? > > -William
That was meant as an addition to why it is a bad idea for that feature. I think it's a bad idea to disable ssh login while someone is bruteforcing your account. Your right that there are other ways to still login.
