Author: Christopher Roberts Date: To: users Subject: Re: [bitfolk] fail2ban
On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012, Dom Latter wrote: > 103 attempts on a non-standard port?
Yes, not sure what your question is though.
> Anyway - do you have users that you don't trust to set a strong-enough
> password?
That's not the point - better to stop the attempts in the first place if you
can, and you can by choosing a non-standard port.
These 103 attempts are the only attempts at my ssh port that I have ever seen,
a bit of a freak tbh. In contrast I have seen thousands of attempts per hour
against port 22.
I know there is an argument against "security by obscurity", but I think it is
a false one in this situation.
