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Brute force protection (rytter.me)
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Brute force protection

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I remember in college editing OpenSSH source code to instead of return wrong password to a root shell prompt just to stop brute force attacks

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    @Pacmanlives
    Couldn't you just disable root login in the sshd config?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh all of my configs are deny root ssh login or without-password. I noticed a significant decrease in scans when returning a root prompt when I did that. This was also in the mid 2000s so who knows how things would be in this day in age for a reduction in scans

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