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Brute force protection (rytter.me)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Brute force protection

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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I remember in college editing OpenSSH source code to instead of return wrong password to a root shell prompt just to stop brute force attacks

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

But... arent they logged in as root then? Wdym with "prompt" i am lost

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