> For most cases it's very simple to get around this by attempting a password, killing the process after 100ms if it doesn't answer and retrying.
This does not actually work, since as an user you are not allowed to kill a suid root process. So you can only fork processes like hell, which is bound by nproc. I still think that this is a sensible security measure. -- Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138654 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
