limit ssh attempts

[Neil Watson]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:10:01PM -0500, lfeder wrote:
 
>BTW,
>I always make important passwords with a lot of alphanumerics. 
>I don't think uppercase/lowercase and all kinds of complexity is that
>important, rather just keep it out of the normal dictionary 
>
> As always, I welcome feedback and improvements.

Limt the users allowed to login and do not permit root logons.  See my
blog entry on ssh near the bottom:
http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/ssh-howto.html

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