[BUGS] Constant SSH login spam

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "Edwin Groothuis" ;
> 
> It's not to make your machine more secure, it's to save yourself
> the CPU cycles by these kind of attacks.

On the contrary, these servers have users. I know my passwords are good but
I can't prevent someone else doing something dumb. Yes, there are ways to
ensure passwords have a particular strength, but if someone else has root
access (doing 'passwd $user' as root usually circumvents strength checks) I
sleep better at night knowing that a dictionary attack has an extremely low
probability of succeeding.

cheers
marty

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