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Re: shutting down dictionary attacks

Subject: Re: shutting down dictionary attacks
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:49:05 -0400
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:47:02AM +0200, Guillaume Vissian wrote:
Are you using password login or Public key, perhaps it's the way, you
disable the password login and script kiddies are immediately
rejected...

Public keys (Protocol 2, RSA) only.  As I'd stated in my OP, *I* use 
standard clients (Putty/OpenSSH/Portable OpenSSH), and there is no
password prompt.  

I STFAed and learned that the scripts don't check
auth types, they brute-force passwords anyway.

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