On 7/30/2015 2:23 PM, Nathan Duehr wrote:
>On Jul 30, 2015, at 12:20, Warren Young<w...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
>
>Meanwhile over here in CentOS land, you still see SSH password guessers
banging on every public IP that responds to port 22. Why? Because it still
occasionally works. Increase the password strength minima, and this class of
worm, too, will quickly die out.
If the Windows fix was firewall on by default, why isn’t that the appropriate
“fix" for Linux distros? Why mess with the password strength or which daemons
are running?
Seems like it adds the necessary step of “STOP: If you turn off this, you’d
better know what you’re doing”, without messing around with default settings of
packages and/or password library configuration files.
if sshd is firewalled by default, why even run it?
--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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