From: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>
To: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
util-linux@vger.kernel.org, Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Subject: Re: sulogin: Don't ask for password when it is locked/disabled
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 10:35:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150526083513.GO2947@piware.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556348A0.9020206@gmail.com>
Hello Bruce,
Bruce Dubbs [2015-05-25 11:06 -0500]:
> Perhaps it's security by obscurity, but doesn't this tell a malicious user
> immediately that the account is locked and to move on to another user id to
> try?
Remote auth tools like ssh and SASL don't tell you that, they just say
"permission denied" (for pretty much this reason, I figure).
Martin
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-26 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-25 14:01 sulogin: Don't ask for password when it is locked/disabled Karel Zak
2015-05-25 16:06 ` Bruce Dubbs
2015-05-26 8:35 ` Martin Pitt [this message]
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