Actually I had the same problem some days ago. Only that my root account was hacked with only 400 attempts.
I used the alternate installation Cd of Ubuntu 8.10, but I was not asked for a root password. Here's a piece of my log:
> Dec 6 00:11:52 cfm sshd[7961]: Failed password for root from > ... > Dec 6 00:35:23 cfm sshd[9034]: Accepted password for root from
I _did not_ set a root password after installation.
This seems like a reason for me to set PermitRootLogin to no in the distributed binary package!
Actually I had the same problem some days ago. Only that my root account was hacked with only 400 attempts.
I used the alternate installation Cd of Ubuntu 8.10, but I was not asked for a root password. Here's a piece of my log:
> Dec 6 00:11:52 cfm sshd[7961]: Failed password for root from
> ...
> Dec 6 00:35:23 cfm sshd[9034]: Accepted password for root from
I _did not_ set a root password after installation.
This seems like a reason for me to set PermitRootLogin to no in the distributed binary package!