> On 18 Jul 2015, at 23:23, Reed Loden <r...@reedloden.com> wrote: > > On Friday, July 17, 2015, <de...@roosoft.ltd.uk> wrote: > >> Do you know if this is still affected if you have fail2ban in place. >> Fail2ban uses the auth logs to monitor failed password attempts. I >> assume that the auth log is still updated even if x number of attempts >> is allowed. Thanks > > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3dnzcq/openssh_keyboardinteractive_authentication_brute/ct726ni > goes over this question pretty well, so as not to rehash everything.
Arguably the question then should be to have a MaxChallengeTries as an analog of MaxAuthTries - and perhaps by default set MaxChallengeTries to the same (sane) value of MaxAuthTries. Dw. _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
