On 6/3/2010 6:55 AM, Greg Pearson wrote:
Hi,
using PAM, how can I configure how many attempts a user can make to
connect, and if exceeding a certain number, block him for a specified
amount of time?
Any idea what the defaults are?
If pam make a log entry, then fail2ban will do whatever you wa
On 6/3/2010 7:13 AM, Greg Pearson wrote:
You could use fail2ban, see also: http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Fail2Ban
So I guess the result would be to the login process become
unresponsive, right? I am not sure this would be what I want. The
desired behaviour for me would be to reject the connec
On 06/03/2010 01:55 PM, Greg Pearson wrote:
> using PAM, how can I configure how many attempts a user can make to
> connect, and if exceeding a certain number, block him for a specified
> amount of time?
man 8 pam_tally
man 8 pam_tally2
> Any idea what the defaults are?
Default is not to block
On 06/03/2010 02:13 PM, Greg Pearson wrote:
> The desired behaviour
> for me would be to reject the connection even if the password becomes
> correct after several failures.
No. This is a bad idea. Anyone can easily DoS you if you go that route.
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Eray
You could use fail2ban, see also: http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Fail2Ban
So I guess the result would be to the login process become unresponsive,
right? I am not sure this would be what I want. The desired behaviour
for me would be to reject the connection even if the password becomes
correct
On 06/03/2010 12:55 PM Greg Pearson wrote:
> Hi,
> using PAM, how can I configure how many attempts a user can make to
> connect, and if exceeding a certain number, block him for a specified
> amount of time?
>
> Any idea what the defaults are?
You could use fail2ban, see also: http://wiki.dove
Hi,
using PAM, how can I configure how many attempts a user can make to
connect, and if exceeding a certain number, block him for a specified
amount of time?
Any idea what the defaults are?
