PAM for blocking multiple login attempts

Digant C Kasundra digant at uta.edu
Wed Feb 16 22:11:18 UTC 2005


I looked at pam_tally but that's not what I'm interested in.  pam_tally
only blocks multiple attempts to login to the same account.  I'm
interested in blocking multiple attempts to login to *any* account from
the same ip.

-- DK

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:31, Jason Gerfen wrote:
> pam_tally, I haven't used it myself but there were a few discussions 
> about using it, where to get it etc on this list recently.  Search the 
> archives of this list and I am sure you will find them.  Hope that gets 
> you started.
> 
> Digant C Kasundra wrote:
> 
> >Last I heard, someone was working on a module that would deal with
> >multiple login attempts for a single ip.  The module wouldn't block the
> >account from logging in, but that ip.  On my campus, we see attacks
> >where a robot will try multiple usernames and passwords and I want to be
> >able to block that ip automagically when this happens.
> >
> >-- DK
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