On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Eben King wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>
>> Spake Eben King on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 01:00PM -0500:
>>> Port 22 works, but I don't use that anymore (too many hack
>>> attempts).
>>
>> A safe workaround for that is to disable passworded/PAM logins.
>
> True, but I like to log in remotely. Sometimes (when I'm feeling frisky) I
> even run X apps over that connection. I put SSH on an unclaimed port
> (according to /etc/services). No serious hack attempts yet. I guess the
> skript kiddies' tools look at 22 by their unchanged defaults.
Wait, you're saying to disallow the password feature, but still allow logins
for those who've created some magic file, yes? How do I create that file?
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