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...hing 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 then inherited by the...