(PM) preventing security breaches

Samudra E Haque (haque@pradeshta.net)
Fri, 29 May 1998 00:47:38 +0600 (BGT)

I just had a chilling thought. What if..

Does the portmaster 2e ComOs care about repeated hacking attempts
from its WAN or LAN ports? Say some clever programmer were to repeatedly
do a brute force attack on the device, :

login: !root
password: aaab
login: !root
password: aaac
login: !root
password: aaad

and so on and on. Q:
a) how would we identify the attack is taking place?
b) is it possible to stop it?
c) Isn't the !root user a portmaster user and NOT a radius user?

-samudra-

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