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Re:Show HN: A proactive way of securing your Linux server by RL_Quine on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:17PM (#24367682)
There's no point to this at all, it's just making services more fragile.

If "brute force" attacks are a concern, you are a fool that has password authentication turned on.

If you have password authentication turned off, why does it matter?

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Re:Show HN: A proactive way of securing your Linux server by calvinmorrison on Thursday September 03, 2020 @07:34PM (#24370064)
Given some other attacks to ssh over the years, isn't it safer to use fail2ban
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