Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:01 -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Always Learning wrote: > >> > You haven't seen my long and difficult (for others) password >> (uppercase, lowercase, and digits). It is unlikely ever to succumb to brute >> > force. :-) >> >> Ah, no. Where can you log in as root from? If it's anywhere outside the >> intranet, bad, bad, bad. > > Blush, blush .... access is on a non-standard port and then restricted > to a few IP addresses. I don't want my servers taken over by others. > Security through obscurity doesn't work. Are you familiar with nmap? Restricted to a few IP addresses is good; the fewer the better. <snip> mark