[Info-vax] SSH on VAX - performance impact of break in attempts

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In article <i52ucj$396$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, m.kraemer at gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
>In article <8790d786-445c-4da9-a67d-01959b9e0ecc at i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
>Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>> 
>> I have been seeing this for years on one of my public machines running
>> TCPware. It is quite amusing and very childish: the far end system
>> appears to be engaged in a dictionary via SSH and is cycling through
>> various account names and passwords. Since this is a VMS machine, so
>> no one has ever been able to break in. 
>
>If - by chance - the right combination of account/password is guessed,
>why would a VMS machine be safer than any other?

Beacause only a fool would create a 'root' account or an 'administrator'
account on VMS *AND* give it privies.  If such a fool should exit, he or
she deserves the wrath of whatever these password crackers can do!  The
12 character username prohibits the 'administrator' account.

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