Brute force protection

@memes

  • Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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

      • Pacmanlives@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        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