>>>>> "Peter" == Peter N M Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> writes:
Peter> We've seen quite a bit of what appears to be industrial-scale password Peter> guessing (google 'hail mary cloud' or a few more obvious keywords), so Peter> on any internet-facing system the probability that someone is trying Peter> to bruteforce their way in via some account or other right now is not Peter> negligible. And about 1/1000th the traffic if you move your sshd from 22 to something far less standard, based on my experience. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
