[asterisk-users] Root Password not taking

[Matt Watson]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Wilton Helm <whelm at compuserve.com> wrote:

>  >making sure to patch any holes through which the hacker might have come
>
> In my case, I had been getting regular attacks through SSH for months,
> probably 100 a day (bots).  Apparently after nine months of this, someone
> stumbled on to my password which regrettably was composed of two dictionary
> words with no special characters, making it susceptible to dictionary
> search.
>
> When I re-installed, I put SSH on a non-standard port and haven't had a
> single attempt to attack the system since.
>
>

While its certainly not a good idea to rely on... security through obscurity
can work very well :)


--
Matt
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