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                         All I want to do is log in …

Gah! Computer security is annoying!

Due to some recent attacks [1], we've implemented some ad-hoc changes to
network security until we can get something better into place. Right now,
we're filtering all ssh [2] traffic on our routers, as well as on some
individual servers, in addition to single packet authentication [3] on one of
our servers.

And I don't know what's more annoying—the script kiddies or our ad-hoc
security measures.

I wasted today just trying to get this “single packet authentication” thingy
working (since I need to work on “Project: Leaflet [4]” and it would make my
life a whole lot easier if I could log in directly) only to have it fail.

Miserably. (How miserably? I turned off the filtering on the router, the
firewall on the physical server, the actual single packet authentication
daemon, allowed anyone to log in via ssh, and I still wasn't getting through.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!)

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/02/13.1
[2] http://www.openssh.org/
[3] http://cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2008/08/07.1

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