Re: pam limits drops privileges

[Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz () lt wsisiz edu pl>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Tarhon-Onu Victor wrote:
>       ssh into your box as any user then telnet into it as user test, or
> login as test from the console.

On console (tty5) after login tree times as test by ssh:

lt login: test
Password:
Too many logins for 'test'.

In logs files:

Sep  6 10:18:57 lt pam_limits[1451]: Too many logins (max 2) for test
Sep  6 10:18:59 lt login(pam_unix)[1451]: session opened for user test by LOGIN(uid=0)
Sep  6 10:18:59 lt pam_limits[1451]: Too many logins (max 2) for test
Sep  6 10:19:01 lt login[1451]: Permission denied

By telnet:

lt:~$ telnet lt
Trying 213.135.44.150...
Connected to lt.
Escape character is '^]'.

Linux 2.4.9 (lt.wsisiz.edu.pl) (10:22 on Thursday, 06 September 2001)

login: test
Password:
Too many logins for 'test'.
Too many logins for 'test'.

Permission denied
Connection closed by foreign host.


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*[ Łukasz Trąbiński ]*
SysAdmin @wsisiz.edu.pl