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Re: broute forcing telnet and ssh


From: "Jeffrey F. Bloss" <jbloss () tampabay rr com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:09:16 -0400

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On Sunday 25 September 2005 03:37 am, Juan B wrote:

I need to boute force my server in the company to
check if it can resist broute forcing ( and check
passwords strange ) the server is open to the to the
internal network in telnet and ssh.

If it is in fact your server, there's no need to brute force SSH. Password 
security depends on users' passwords. You can set them manually and force 
people to use secure passwords, or test them directly without the overhead of 
making an SSH connection. the formere would be preferable.

If it is in fact your server, you should already know all this.

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Hand crafted on September 26, 2005 at 14:04:05 -0400

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