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JF Mezei  
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 More options Jul 2 2007, 1:38 pm
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam...@vaxination.ca>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:38:00 -0400
Subject: Re: VMS security vulnerability (POP server)

m...@null.net wrote:

> For the POP server, the source of all access attempts (whether
> successful or not) is captured in the file:

>    SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$POP]TCPIP$POP_RUN.LOG

 From my examples posted yesterday:

> 2007-07-02 01:59:23 thread 0: sys$getuai: %RMS-E-RNF, record not found
> 2007-07-02 01:59:23 thread 0: User account "canada" is invalid.
> 2007-07-02 01:59:23 thread 0: No such user "canada"
> 2007-07-02 01:59:40 thread 0: password supplied for "system" is incorrect.
> 2007-07-02 01:59:40 thread 0: Max # of authentication attempts exceeded.
> 2007-07-02 04:05:51 thread 0: read iosb: %SYSTEM-F-LINKDISCON, network partner d
> isconnected logical link
> 2007-07-02 04:05:52 thread 0: abnormal disconnect

Where is the source of the attempt ? I see no IP address there.

> If the target username exists, the login failure count is also
> incremented so that the user will be notified of the failures upon the
> next valid login.

Not in my universe:

Username: SYSTEM                           Owner:  Jean-François Mezei
Account:  SYSTEM                           UIC:    [1,4] ([SYSTEM])
CLI:      DCL                              Tables: DCLTABLES
<...>
Expiration:            (none)    Pwdminimum:  5   Login Fails:     0
Pwdlifetime:           (none)    Pwdchange:   5-OCT-2006 01:02
Last Login: 25-JUN-2007 03:23 (interactive), 24-JUN-2007 00:31
(non-interactive)


 
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