Re: [tlug] attack via ssh? (don't panic :-P)

[Michael Reinsch <mr@example.com>]

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On Sat, 14 May 2005 00:01:33 +0900
Nikolay Elenkov <nick@example.com> wrote:

> You may also want to limit the users that can login via ssh by user/
> group. That cuts the connection before any authentication checks are
> made.

Really? Why doesn't sshd do that when a user is unknown on the system?
Is that only done when using AllowGroups? The man pages don't say
anything about that...

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  Michael Reinsch <mr@example.com>                      http://mr.uue.org/
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