Re: Security problem in pam_unix?

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What should the solution be?

Not logging the "username" at all? Or logging it if and only if the
"username" is actually a valid username?

I lean to the latter.

Nico


On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 05:59:51PM +0000, John Haxby wrote:
[A complaint about logging usernames in failed login attempts, which logs
can lead to logging of passwords when users accidentally type in their
passwords at the username prompt, was here.]
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