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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:18:16 -0500
From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: What is this Very Stupid DOS Attack Script? 
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Luiz Eduardo Roncato Cordeiro writes:
>Probably, what you have seen is a force brute attack against your
>sshd. Unfortunately, this kind of attack still works.

	My thanks to all who have responded.  I am glad to know this
isn't more sinister than it appears to be.  It did make me get
religion and fix all the Linux systems I have control over so that one
can not successfully log in as root with any password even though I
choose strong passwords.  Better to log in as you and su -.