[Wylug-help] Security log message

[Andrew J Cole]

>On 10 Mar 2008, at 10:30, James Holden wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:27:00AM +0000, John Hodrien wrote:
>>> ssh certainly gets a pounding from brute force attempts.  That was  
>>> why I was tempted by rate limiting it.
>>
>> It certainly does. I tend to run SSH on unconventional ports because  
>> of
>> this. I see lots and lots of dictionary attacks.
>
>
>I tend not to bother.  Instead I always configure ssh to accept key  
>based authentication only - no passwords at all.

A two factor login (key + password) would be considerably safer should
you happen to loose your key!

Andrew