Limit the number of login tries via ssh

2001-04-26 Thread Michael Jung
I'm very happy with the team of e-smith and wish you all a good and sucessfully new year 2001. I'm using in 'Remote access': Secure shell (ssh) access: public Allow administrative command line access over ssh: no Allow ssh access using standard passwords: yes So I can log in with my normal user

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Limit the number of login tries via ssh

2001-04-25 Thread Gordon Rowell
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 09:50:55PM +0100, Michael Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm very happy with the team of e-smith and wish you all a good and > sucessfully new year 2001. Thanks for the good wishes and same to you. > I'm using in 'Remote access': > Secure shell (ssh) access: public > A

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Limit the number of login tries via ssh

2001-04-25 Thread Charlie Brady
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Gordon Rowell wrote: > > Would it not be useful to limit the password tries of normal > > accounts to 3 or 5 and then block the account with 'passwd -l > > ' until a specific time or/and reset it with the > > e-smith-password ? > > Something could probably be fairly easily