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Re: PAM tarpit module for repeated SSH login attempts



On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:50:07AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> For a tarpit, the best thing to do would be simply to drop the
> connection without sending a FIN or RST packet. I don't know if PAM
> can do this.
> 
> Otherwise, just hold the connection open for several minutes and do
> nothing. After that time, send a RST or just drop it from the table.

AFAIK PAM is designed do return a single value like PAM_SUCCESS or
PAM_XXX_ERR, so the above isn't anything to deal with PAM.

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