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 > ... > Dec 6 00:35:23 cfm sshd[9034]: Accepted password for root from I _did not_ set a root password after installation. This seems like a reason for me to set PermitRootLogin to no in the distributed binary package! -- sshd hacked in only 50,000 tries https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58074 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to openssh in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
