On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 22:54:32 +0200, Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > not an easy problem: it always seems to end up in DoS vs Brute Force Cracking. > So the only good and simple solution i can think of: use the best possible > password encrytion (or sufficient, a statistically zero chance when trying as > much connections -to brute force crack the password- as possible for a > significant amount of time.) Maybe you can use client side certificates. Those will be from a large enough space that guessing shouldn't be a problem. You should be able to make that work with PAM.