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Re:Bastion hosts by philjr on Thursday November 20, 2014 @04:04PM (#8638133)
just run ssh on a non-standard port and you get the same benefits
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Re:Bastion hosts by e40 on Sunday November 23, 2014 @05:57PM (#8650273)
just run ssh on a non-standard port and you get the same benefits

philjr, that is just complete BS. I've run SSH on non-standard ports and they still get a lot of attempts. You know, there are these things called port scans that easily find the daemon on alternate ports.

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Re:Bastion hosts by arde on Thursday November 20, 2014 @05:40PM (#8638641)
That is equivalent to limiting SPA to a 16-bit password.
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