Speaking of mail etc

John Abreau jabr at abreau.net
Wed Jul 30 03:40:17 EDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 22:01, Konrad wrote:

> Regards your comment about "anyone can access the port and try to login by
> guessing a password, whereas with ssh, someone would have to first break
> ssh to get in. " that seems wrong. Anyone can access SSH port and also
> guess the password. How does that correspond to "break SSH" ?

Actually, I've configured sshd on my home server so it doesn't use  
password authentication at all. The only way to login through ssh 
is with a dsa key. 

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