:-/ I didn't get badk to this, and this bug is closed now. ..but for
informational purposes...
Regarding password probabilities reflecting reality, I was assuming that the
root password that came with the system was randomly generated, and wouldn't
be subject to dictionary or probabilistic attac
P.S.: I cut the lines of the log because I did not want to publish the
IP-address here. The lines continue with the IP, port and "ssh2"
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sshd hacked in only 50,000 tries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58074
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Actually I had the same problem some days ago. Only that my root account
was hacked with only 400 attempts.
I used the alternate installation Cd of Ubuntu 8.10, but I was not asked
for a root password. Here's a piece of my log:
> Dec 6 00:11:52 cfm sshd[7961]: Failed password for root from
> ..
