On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 6:47:34 AM UTC+1, Tamás Gulácsi wrote:
>
> Provide a proper PasswordCallback to your server, as in the NewServerConn
> example (https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/ssh#NewServerConn).
>
> Thats your function, you can program any algorithm you wish.
>
Thanks for the advise, I looked into it. I was hoping that ssh/server.go
implemented RFC4252, par. 4::
"[...] Additionally, the implementation SHOULD limit the number of failed
authentication
attempts a client may perform in a single session (the RECOMMENDED limit is
20 attempts).
If the threshold is exceeded, the server SHOULD disconnect."
The reason why I need this is that there are currently SSH brute-force bots
out there which are so badly written, they retry (the same username and
password combination) for pretty much as long as nothing else times
out/fails.
Anyway, my attempts to build a maxTries algorithm into PasswordCallback
were getting uglier by the minute, so I ended up with this solution/kludge
to limit the amount of retries within a session:
The good thing about this is the maxTries works per session, which within
PasswordCallback was a real problem to do (at least for me, I'm still very
much out of my depth when it comes to golang).
diff --git a/ssh/server.go b/ssh/server.go
index 37df1b3..4ba569e 100644
--- a/ssh/server.go
+++ b/ssh/server.go
@@ -263,6 +263,8 @@ func (s *connection) serverAuthenticate(config
*ServerConfig) (*Permissions, err
var err error
var cache pubKeyCache
var perms *Permissions
+ var sum = 0
+ const maxTries = 3
userAuthLoop:
for {
@@ -300,8 +302,11 @@ userAuthLoop:
if !ok || len(payload) > 0 {
return nil, parseError(msgUserAuthRequest)
}
-
perms, authErr = config.PasswordCallback(s,
password)
+ if sum >= maxTries {
+ break userAuthLoop
+ }
+ sum += 1
case "keyboard-interactive":
if config.KeyboardInteractiveCallback == nil {
authErr = errors.New("ssh:
keyboard-interactive auth not configubred")
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