openssh_4.6 on Unixware 7.1.4 - ssh does not lock account after x attempts


 
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openssh_4.6 on Unixware 7.1.4 - ssh does not lock account after x attempts

Hi all,

I am having some issues with openssh vers OpenSSH_4.6p1 on SCO unixware 7.1.4

when a user accesses the system via ssh and the password is incorrect and more attempts have been made that the lock out limit I find that although there are messages in the syslog the account does not lock out however they do for telnet.

My understanding of this is that ssh using different subsystems than the login / authentication mechanisms therefore I should not expect ssh to lockout the account.

I have been tasks with finding a solution and have been researchign PAM and the pam_tally module however I cannot find a pam_tall.so module that has been ported for the version of SCO or can I see it in /usr/lib/security/pam_*

Please can someone advise if they have had similar experiences or can suggest a solution or provide the pam_tally source code / ported version of pam_tally for SCO unixware ....

any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

chlawren.
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SSH-KEYSIGN(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					    SSH-KEYSIGN(8)

NAME
ssh-keysign -- ssh helper program for hostbased authentication SYNOPSIS
ssh-keysign DESCRIPTION
ssh-keysign is used by ssh(1) to access the local host keys and generate the digital signature required during hostbased authentication with SSH protocol version 2. ssh-keysign is disabled by default and can only be enabled in the the global client configuration file /etc/ssh/ssh_config by setting HostbasedAuthentication to ``yes''. ssh-keysign is not intended to be invoked by the user, but from ssh(1). See ssh(1) and sshd(8) for more information about hostbased authen- tication. FILES
/etc/ssh/ssh_config Controls whether ssh-keysign is enabled. /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key, /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key These files contain the private parts of the host keys used to generate the digital signature. They should be owned by root, read- able only by root, and not accessible to others. Since they are readable only by root, ssh-keysign must be set-uid root if hostbased authentication is used. SEE ALSO
ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1), ssh_config(5), sshd(8) AUTHORS
Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org> HISTORY
ssh-keysign first appeared in OpenBSD 3.2. BSD
May 24, 2002 BSD