Re: limit login attempts with pam

2004-07-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Redmond Militante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 hello
 
 i'm interested in configuring PAM on my 4x system so that a user is locked out of 
 ignored if trying to log in unsuccessfully via ftp within the space of a minute or 
 so. i'm trying to eliminate brute force attacks...
 
 
 can anyone point me towards some good tutorials on how to do this?

Good tutorials?  I don't know, but there is source for the pam_tally
module included in the tree on my -STABLE machine.  

Think it over carefully before enabling this kind of capability,
though; you may be making brute force attacks somewhat harder, but a
denial-of-service attack on specific users will become trivial.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/
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limit login attempts with pam

2004-07-27 Thread Redmond Militante
hello

i'm interested in configuring PAM on my 4x system so that a user is locked out of 
ignored if trying to log in unsuccessfully via ftp within the space of a minute or so. 
i'm trying to eliminate brute force attacks...


can anyone point me towards some good tutorials on how to do this?

thanks
redmond
-- 
Redmond Militante
Software Engineer / Medill School of Journalism
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 #0: Thu Jul 1 14:36:26 CDT 2004 i386
10:15AM  up 10 days, 16:19, 3 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.09, 0.08


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