Re: Very simple password for DB administrator - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Very simple password for DB administrator
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Msg-id 407d949e1001161301u37813ed7u5236d17b1f514536@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Very simple password for DB administrator  ("Daniel J. Summers" <daniel.lists@djs-consulting.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Daniel J. Summers
<daniel.lists@djs-consulting.com> wrote:
>  The non-standard name for the
> superuser is a technique called "security by obscurity"
>
> Do users get unlimited SSH
> attempts, or do you ban IPs after three to five failed attempts?

A technique known as "built-in DOS vulnerabilities"


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greg

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