Per Jessen wrote:
Richard (MQ) wrote:
Having said that - surely the memory footprint must be fairly small, and ssh security bugs are fairly rare ! ;-)
An open sshd behind an open firewall will be under brute force attack in about 23 milliseconds after going on-line :-)
/Per Jessen, Zürich
That's for certain. I had one occasion when I went to a relative's home armed with CD's to get his box up to date, only to find I didn't have everything with me, so on the next occasion, I enabled the ssh port on my smoothwall box so I could get to the stuff remotely. A few days later I remembered it was open and there were numerous attempts at a break in, all failed. It still has it's uses, alternatively there is openVPN which I haven't looked at in a while. The last time I just couldn't get it configured to work to a friend's box, whereas Cisco VPN client was a success for getting into our corporate systems working from home or dialling in via a private ISP from customer sites. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org