From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Mar  3 20:22:59 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16919
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:22:59 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16883
          for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:22:49 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu)
Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost)
          by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA21566;
          Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:22:25 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 20:22:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Tuber <root@indiemedia.com>
cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Log-in trys
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303130758.18796A-100000@indiemedia.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303202146.21429N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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