:-/ I didn't get badk to this, and this bug is closed now. ..but for
informational purposes...
Regarding password probabilities reflecting reality, I was assuming that the
root password that came with the system was randomly generated, and wouldn't
be subject to dictionary or probabilistic attac
P.S.: I cut the lines of the log because I did not want to publish the
IP-address here. The lines continue with the IP, port and "ssh2"
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sshd hacked in only 50,000 tries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58074
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Actually I had the same problem some days ago. Only that my root account
was hacked with only 400 attempts.
I used the alternate installation Cd of Ubuntu 8.10, but I was not asked
for a root password. Here's a piece of my log:
> Dec 6 00:11:52 cfm sshd[7961]: Failed password for root from
> ..
We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in
the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further.
However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and
don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
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sshd hacked in only 50,000 tries
https://launchpad.net/bugs/58074
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