New round of slow SSH brute force attacks underway

And a linode host is in the list….

Oct 5 08:47:00 rosalita sshd[99997]: error: PAM: authentication error for root from 125.67.234.53 Oct 5 08:48:12 rosalita sshd[101]: error: PAM: authentication error for root from ipe-iptva02.man.newskies.net Odd choice for kernel.pid_max.

@jed:

Odd choice for kernel.pidmax. IIRC, MAXPID on BSD systems is normally 99999.

@Stever:

@jed:

Odd choice for kernel.pidmax. IIRC, MAXPID on BSD systems is normally 99999.
Ah, I saw PAM and assumed Linux. Good call.