Dealing with automated SSH password-guessing

Posted Oct 25, 2016 7:52 UTC (Tue) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562)
In reply to: Dealing with automated SSH password-guessing by niner
Parent article: Dealing with automated SSH password-guessing

Meh. That just ensures that passwords are guaranteed to be on yellow stickies besides monitors, below keyboards and such.

Dealing with automated SSH password-guessing

Posted Oct 25, 2016 7:57 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] (2 responses)

With physical access an attacker has already almost won anyway... But yes, no solution is perfect. Though I can't say that I've seen stickers around here where we do have this policy.

Dealing with automated SSH password-guessing

Posted Oct 25, 2016 15:00 UTC (Tue) by bvanheu (guest, #88814) [Link] (1 responses)

do you always leave your computer unlocked?

Dealing with automated SSH password-guessing

Posted Oct 25, 2016 16:11 UTC (Tue) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

I'm sorry, I don't understand where you infer that from or what you're getting at?