On Oct 19, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Maurice de Laat wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> On a 5107R, is it correct that the Login Manager, which records which 
> hosts has failed login attempts, doesn't log failed logins that use a 
> username that doesn't exist on the system?
> 
> I have numerous failed logins from one host, with usernames that doesn't 
> exists on the system. These attemps can be found in the secure logfile. 
> However, these failed logins don't seem to be catched by the login 
> manager.
> 
> Is this working as designed? Even these attempts to login can be seen as a 
> brute force attack imho.
> 
> Thanks


It is my understanding that these would be caught by the host rule. The GUI 
doesn't recommend using the user rule, as I recall.

Jeff
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