From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 4 07:29:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20837 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 07:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indiemedia.com (warhol.indiemedia.com [207.97.169.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20832 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 07:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@indiemedia.com) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by indiemedia.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA21840; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:17:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:17:18 -0500 (EST) From: Mission Control To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Log-in trys In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, but I don't want it to time out and still prompt for a login. I want it to close the connection entirely...is there any way around that? On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Tuber wrote: > > > How do I limit the number of "bad" logins on my server. > > > > I only want it to handle three before closing the session > > This is basically what you get; after three attempted logins, login will > wait 10 seconds or so before prompting again. Eventually it will timeout > and close the connection. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message