Luiz Eduardo Roncato Cordeiro writes:
>Probably, what you have seen is a force brute attack against your
>sshd. Unfortunately, this kind of attack still works.
My thanks to all who have responded. I am glad to know this
isn't more sinister than it appears to be. It did make me get
religion and fix all the Linux systems I have control over so that one
can not successfully log in as root with any password even though I
choose strong passwords. Better to log in as you and su -.
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