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Re: PAM tarpit module for repeated SSH login attempts



On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 07:55:00AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> Well, it is assumed that running a pam module will have some side effect
> aside from returning PAM_SUCCESS or PAM_ERR. The fin/rst stuff isn't
> possible, but just holding the connection open can easily achived by
> running sleep(3) in the pam module.

Yes, it looks like an easy solution, but remembering the ip connection
count, to calculate the sleeptime, should be taken inside the application
and not inside the module, IMHO. 
Using PAM as bridge to an connection tracking daemon isn't a perfect design, 
and should be better replaced by an library, to put it away from PAM.
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