Re: [linux-security] Re: denial of service attack on login

[Travis Siegel <tsiegel softcon com>]

> > The following denial of service attack seems to work quite nicely on my
> > ancient Red Hat 3.0.3 system with the standard login application. Perhaps
> > this is not a problem with 4.0? Does anyone know about other distributions?
> > 
> > 	joe$ nvi /var/log/wtmp
> > 
> > 	[ Now no-one else can log in ]
> 

It doesn't work on my (slightly) modified slackware 3.1 installation
either.  Just for reference.


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