Re: Maximum Authentication Tries

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_zip.com.au)
Date: 03/18/05

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To: Marc Valard <Valard_Marc@cat.com>

    Marc Valard wrote:
    > I'm using the 3.6.1.P2 version of Openssh.
    >
    > I would like to know which is the default Maximum Authentication Tries for
    > this version.

    6 (or rather 7 since it counts from zero).

    > And also if it's possible to possible to modify it.

    In that version, only by modifying the code. In later versions of OpenSSH
    it's a tunable knob (MaxAuthTries) in sshd_config. 

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