[lug] keeping up with attacks
Zan Lynx
zlynx at acm.org
Sat May 4 19:32:19 MDT 2019
On 5/4/2019 10:59 AM, Stephen Kraus wrote:
> SSH: No fail2ban? Just keep guessing till you win. No cert guessing or
> sniffing needed. Public key eliminates some of that, but its still not
> good practice to expose SSH.
Literally none of the Linux administrators I know personally run SSH
with password auth enabled. As you say, that would be a bad idea.
With public / private keypairs or certificates you could keep guessing
for eternity and never get in.
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