Found, a new rootkit

Neil Cherry ncherry at comcast.net
Sat Apr 1 17:56:10 UTC 2006


Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 31 March 2006 19:42, John Summerfield wrote:

>> A reasonable security system would shut down the login process for a
>> time after some number of consecutive failed login attempts. It's a
>> rule that's been around for a long time, it's even in Linux, but
>> implemented poorly.
> 
> And how does one go about turning that option on, with say a 15 minute 
> timeout?

Check out pam_abl on http://www.hexten.net/pam_abl/ (SourceForge
project).

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