Re: [bitfolk] The perils of opening tcp/22 to the Internet

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Author: Andy Smith
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] The perils of opening tcp/22 to the Internet

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Hello,

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:36:30AM -0000, Nigel Rantor wrote:
> I provisioned a very, very small system, and becasue of that I don't want
> uneccessary cruft running on the box before I even begin.
>
> Multiple images: fine.
>
> Default images bloated by stuff I just never want installed: no.


Does this mean that you'd have been annoyed if your VPS had come
with Fail2Ban installed already?

Cheers,
Andy

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