Dryice Liu’s Blog

Never think your password is complicated enough

Last week I was asked to help a friend to check out his server that has been hacked. First I was thinking some kind of PHP leak or SQL injection. But I was wrong. The crack uses some kind of SSH user/password scanner and got his root password.
I find this out because the cracker created […]

¶ Posted 21 April 2008 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

an introduction to openssh part 5 — config files

Well the ultimate way to tweak a program (besides modify the source)
is to edit the configure file. This is what we are gonna talk about in
this part.
There are two kind of config file for OpenSSH: for the server side and
for the client side.
- For the server side
The server side configure file is usually /etc/ssh/sshd_config. No
matter […]

¶ Posted 17 August 2007 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

an introduction to openssh part 4 — SSH on Windows

It is ideal if we can live in a Unix only world. However sometimes we’ll need MS windows. In this part we’ll talk about using OpenSSH, or SSH in general, on MS Windows platform. On the OpenSSH Alternatives for Windows page, there is a list of available free/open source software. We’ll talk about the two […]