Re: brute force attacking the password

C. Bensend wrote:
>
> > No, there is not. Does anyone want to suggest a possible implementation
> > for the TODO list?
>
> I would like to see a combination of number of login failures and a
> timeout, configurable via the conf file. Say, X login failures
> disables further logins for that account for Y minutes.
>
> That would be groovy. :)

I would like to pick something that matches what a typical Unix system
does because I think the _fancy_ solutions actually cause weird problems
like denial-of-service attacks by just trying to log in.

How do typical open source Unix's handle it? It think they slow down
prompting for a password --- but as I remember we only allow one
password attempt per connection so that is already covered.

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