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Is there an active exploit? Or are you just saying that this is the weakest form of auth for SSH?


password is the weakest form of authentication on open systems i.e. ones which you have to hand over to monkey grade users.

If you have a reasonable password policy yourself, I very much doubt it will cause you any problems.

I've been attacked by these for 10 years, probably totalling millions of attempts and I have a user name in their databases but due to a sensible password, nothing has got in.

I tend to use PKI and keyboard interactive logins though.




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