anti-bruteforce PAM module

Andy Armstrong andy at hexten.net
Thu Oct 27 14:52:46 UTC 2005


On 26 Oct 2005, at 01:15, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> This is wrong, pam_abl can't do ip-based locking. The main purpose
> of the pam_af module is to automatically block 'bad' hosts either
> with firewall or with PAM itself.

Sure it does - it locks by IP address or account. In fact IP based  
locking is the main purpose of it.

Or have I missed your point in some way?

> I think, that we don't want to merge these modules, since
> they have different purposes.

Are you sure?

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net




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