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2013 Oct 06
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PermitRootLogin=without-password as default
...asonable point).
The thing that prompted me to finally mention this here, is this story:
http://bsdly.blogspot.ca/2013/10/the-hail-mary-cloud-and-lessons-learned.html
and the unsurprising fact that the most popular account to guess is
'root', as seen here:
http://home.nuug.no/~peter/hailmary2013/2008nov19/slowbrutes.data/massage/hail-mary-users-by-frequency.txt
I imagine that this issue seems a little irrelevant on this list, as
we're all perfectly capable of setting whatever value we want in the
sshd_config, but that's not the point.
The point is that the default set here is the...