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Prototype security software blocks DDoS attacks

by Tim Greene, Network World Security researchers show lightweight, host-based access-control scheme that dumps attack packets without overwhelming memory, CPU.Researchers have come up with host-based security software that blocks distributed denial-of-service attacks without swamping the memory and CPU of the host machines.The filtering, called identity-based privacy-protected access control (IPCAF), can also prevent [...]

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pam_login_access

PAM_LOGIN_ACCESS(8)					    BSD System Manager's Manual 				       PAM_LOGIN_ACCESS(8)

NAME

     pam_login_access -- login.access PAM module

SYNOPSIS

     [service-name] module-type control-flag pam_login_access [options]

DESCRIPTION

     The login.access service module for PAM provides functionality for only one PAM category: account management.  In terms of the module-type
     parameter, this is the ``account'' feature.

   Login.access Account Management Module
     The login.access account management component (pam_sm_acct_mgmt()), returns success if and only if the user is allowed to log in on the spec-
     ified tty (in the case of a local login) or from the specified remote host (in the case of a remote login), according to the restrictions
     listed in /etc/login.access.

SEE ALSO

     login.access(5), pam.conf(5), pam(8)

AUTHORS

     The login.access(5) access control scheme was designed and implemented by Wietse Venema.

     The pam_login_access module and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and NAI Labs, the Security Research
     Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (``CBOSS''), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.

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