break-in attempt in my machine

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, 28. August 2016, 11:39:07 CEST schrieb Karl Auer:
> By the way, anyone that has ssh access open to the world MUST take
> extra precautions. At an absolute minimum, any account that can log in
> via ssh MUST have a VERY GOOD PASSWORD - twenty or thirty random
> characters including numbers, punctuation and both cases. Otherwise you
> WILL get hacked. 

I have a 9-letter fantasy word as password. Something like "schwurbelfu". Just 
lower case letters. So this is insecure? I doubt it could be cracked by 
trying.

> But it would be a much better idea to read the above
> blog entry and implement the first few ideas at least.

I've implemented no 2, 3, 5 and 10 now... I won't disable root logins, because 
I want root sftp access.

Bye
V.W.