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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: guessing passwords
Message-ID: <9672@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 16:12:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 16:12:29 1985
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> Instead of disabling the account, why not just drop the line after the Nth try at

Well, we log the failed attempts and drop the line.  Although with the
port selectors and networks this doesn't bother people too much, they
just reconnect.  My favorite is to silently ignore all input to login
after the third attempt.

-Ron