Re: brute force attacking the password - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: brute force attacking the password
Date
Msg-id 200504182055.j3IKtj713477@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: brute force attacking the password  ("C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com>)
Responses Re: brute force attacking the password  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
List pgsql-admin
C. Bensend wrote:
>
> > No, there is not.  Does anyone want to suggest a possible implementation
> > for the TODO list?
>
> I would like to see a combination of number of login failures and a
> timeout, configurable via the conf file.  Say, X login failures
> disables further logins for that account for Y minutes.
>
> That would be groovy.  :)

I would like to pick something that matches what a typical Unix system
does because I think the _fancy_ solutions actually cause weird problems
like denial-of-service attacks by just trying to log in.

How do typical open source Unix's handle it?  It think they slow down
prompting for a password --- but as I remember we only allow one
password attempt per connection so that is already covered.

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