Re: brute force attacking the password

From: Wim Bertels <wim(dot)bertels(at)khleuven(dot)be>
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Subject: Re: brute force attacking the password
Date: 2005-04-19 15:00:15
Message-ID: 42651CFF.1020703@khleuven.be
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>Can't people use PAM to get this effect if they want it?

what if u use pam with ldap, then u can use pg brute force cracking to obtain the ldap password, which is probably a bigger problem

>For most people password guessing isn't going to be a big problem as
>the database won't be accessible from totally untrusted places and watching
>the log files for guessing will probably be a good enough solution.

what if u do want the database to be globally accessible..

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