On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:35:16AM +0100, Greg Farrell mentioned:
> Heh. Nope there is only my account, root and cygnus with passwords on my
> personal server. All of which i generated and they're 8 character
> passwords randomly generated with a combination of letters,numbers and
> symbols. I know they could be brute forced eventually but how many
> hundreds of thousands of attempts would it take and OpenSSH has
> restrictions on the rate you can send in passwords.
What else is running with open ports ? Apache/php or anything ?
john
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