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Bug#195716: Fixing Bug Info



severity 195716 important
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After watching my external access logs for a while, I saw numerous attempts to log in to different accounts with password guessing. I try to keep user passwords pretty secure, but there's always a chance of it not being that way or being guessed anyway.

For the time being, I'll remove the ability to log in with only a password, but that's not ideal either as I cannot control the strength of the pass-phrase attached to an SSH key and it a user's home machine were to be breached or his/her laptop stolen, then there is always possible access this way.

The only way around this that I can see is to require users to use both a public key (can be stored, forwarded, etc.) AND their login password (which may be weak but is not stored).

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@precidia.com )

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