Re: passw0rd trial limit

From: Alice Bryson (abryson@bytefocus.com)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2006 - 10:58:43 EDT


Hi there
    Have you known what authentication method of the remote server?
Kerberos or others?

2006/6/24, ceyhun <jhun39@gmail.com>:
> hi
>
> i am trying to pen test a web site
>
> site has a login page and all the usernames are known
> the passw0rd length is fixed and 6 characters long
>
> i think with a brute force attack it wold be easy to login as any user,
>
> but the problem is when a user enters wrong paaw0rd more than five times
> he/she can only login for aboout 2 hours later
>
> how this obstacle can be overcomed do you have any idea?
>
> by the way remote server accepts another user login wehther you have
> exceeded trial limit or not
> so i think it is not related with the ip filtering
>
>
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