Re: how would openssh react face to an attack ?
From: JL (jean-louis.ly@eads-telecom.com)
Date: 12/02/02
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From: jean-louis.ly@eads-telecom.com (JL) Date: 2 Dec 2002 02:34:37 -0800
dtucker@dodgy.net.au (Darren Tucker) wrote in message news:<as92qk$2te$1@gate.dodgy.net.au>...
> In article <632c3a84.0211290835.121dd265@posting.google.com>,
> JL <jean-louis.ly@eads-telecom.com> wrote:
> >that is a question i was wondering for quite a time already
> >we know openssh is secure and so on
> >but how would it react face to an attack ?
>
> Depends on the underlying platform. AIX, for example, will lock out the
> account after X password failures (where X is defined by the admin).
>
> PAM-based systems may return PAM_MAXTRIES to indicate excessive
> password failures which sshd will treat as an error.
>
> Generally, if the OS doesn't support lockout then sshd doesn't either.
hmm ok thanks for your quick answer
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