possible bug

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Fri Jul 5 07:16:49 EST 2002


Platform, configuration, etc would be a useful thing.

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Jirka Zajpt wrote:

> I don't know if that what I found is real bug, but I think that it's
> important.
>
> When you give a valid user at login, openssh waits something about 3
> seconds after giving password (I'am not sure if its depends on system
> configuration). But when you give user which does not exist, openssh
> does not wait the same time. This allows to detect valid user on a
> target system.
>
> Jirka Zajpt, <jirka at zajpt.cz>
>
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