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

From Dawid Kuroczko
Subject Re: brute force attacking the password
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Msg-id 758d5e7f0504181359974fe9@mail.gmail.com
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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
Re: brute force attacking the password
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> > 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.  :)

And dangerous.  Imagine a system with say, apache accound used
from some Apache application.  And a maluser who purposefully
tries to log in to "apache" account and fails, thus causing a DoS
on the web application. :)

...of course with careful planning and right implementation it
would be very good.

Anyway, a simple 'sleep 2 seconds before telling that password
was wrong' would be a good addition anyhow.  [ if it already is
inside PgSQL, please forgive me :) ]


  Regards,
      Dawid

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