[22559] in bugtraq
Re: pam limits drops privileges
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lukasz Trabinski)
Fri Sep 7 12:11:19 2001
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:27:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: Lukasz Trabinski <lukasz@lt.wsisiz.edu.pl>
To: Tarhon-Onu Victor <mituc@iasi.rdsnet.ro>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
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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 Tr±biński ]*
SysAdmin @wsisiz.edu.pl
