On 22.06.2005, at 10:48, Vidar Tyldum Hansen wrote:

> VoIP wrote:
>> How can an user account be disabled after 3 login tries? I am  
>> using SSH.
>>
>
> So that if I happen to know where your box is and one of the lusers on
> it (say root) I can do a denial of service attack?

Read through pam development, there are lots of source code out there  
that might do what you want,
but as Vidar already noted, I would be concerned to open your box to  
a denial of service attack.

You could think about what is worse,
beeing locked out as a legitimate user, or beeing locked out b/c of a  
short term memory loss,

alternatively having somebody trying dictionary passwords, but if you  
allow only cracklib check passwords for your users, that would fail  
ultimately.

just my two cents
matthias

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