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

From Enrico Weigelt
Subject Re: brute force attacking the password
Date
Msg-id 20050511222548.GD6485@nibiru.borg.metux.de
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In response to Re: brute force attacking the password  (Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@khleuven.be>)
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* Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@khleuven.be> wrote:

<snip>
> since brute force attacks are quit traceable (targetting one and the
> same user eg..),
> one could a script to check:
> - the percentage of failed logins/user, depending on the percentage (eg
> 75% or more failed, this should be configurable), these events should be
> reporteg in security.log file under the postgres log directory, or
> mailed to user (inetd...)
> - if there are more than eg 10 (this should be configurable) failed
> consecutive logins/user, this should again be reported.

BTW: is it possible to do this directly in the database - by rules and
triggers on the appropriate system tables ?


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