[Cialug] ssh oddness

Aaron Porter atporter at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 15:44:11 CST 2008


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> and it is no longer possible to see which entry belongs to what machine.
> Any idea what might have changed to cause this, and how to change it
> back?

Others have answered the what and how, FYI the WHY is to reduce the
usefullnes of a single compromised account for launching attacks
against other hosts using shared credentials. It seems that most users
with bad passwords and/or insecure ssh-keys tend to reuse those same
bad credentials as often as they are allowed.


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