On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Admin wrote:
> a). I would like to prevent someone from using a cracker program on my SSH
> server and the only way to do that is to lock out an account if
> it's password has been entered incorreclty for 100 time. Can this be
> done, what setting do you use to lock out SSH ?
no, you cannot. this is operating system specific. you can set ssh to drop
connection after some number of attempts, but ssh doesn't hook into your
OS deeply enough to disable accounts. i recommend monitoring your logs and
using good passwords.
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