Re: OpenSSH 3.9p1-portable PAM Authentication Remote Information Disclosure

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:21:30PM -0500, Marcus Lauer wrote:
>         I do hope that somebody fixes this, though.  Any bug which
> allows a dictionary attack on the root account, unlikely as it is to
> work, is still surely a bad thing.

If you're worried about that, and this _is_ the earlier issue, I believe
there's a simple workaround: use the 'nodelay' flag to pam_unix.



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