I apologize for the very late summary, but I have been swamped as of late. I originally posted: Managers, Being relatively new to Solaris, I have noticed that if I telnet to a machine and issue an incorrect login or password, there is a certain wait that occurs before a login prompt occurs again. This does not occur in AIX or RH Linux. Is there a way to control this? *************************************************************************************************************************************** The consensus was that this was intentionally done to prevent brute password attacks, although this option can be changed by editing the SLEEPTIME variable in /etc/default/login. The variable can range from 0 to 5 seconds. Thank you to the following people for replying: Konstantin Rozinov Dan Lowe simon.conve David Stern Christopher L. Barnard bergman Kevin Buterbaugh Tony Brown Unix Administrator aerospan.com tbrown@aerospan.com 630-451-0563Received on Thu Aug 30 15:43:55 2001
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