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The manual tells me that the delay engine enables run time delay. I am guessing that this means this is to prevent an attempt to brute force crack a password.
However can any give me any more details regarding this service please?
Thanks in advance
Peter
it is used to delay initial login, in case a hacker is watching a connection, this can help.
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Originally Posted by Gr-R
OK, but what I could not see from the manuals was what sort of delay? If a brute force password cracker is run, does the delay between retries get longer?
Peter
This can help with brute force attacks.
The delay engine creates the appearance of a delay when checking user and pass credentials. This delay makes it harder for brute force attacks to determine if a username is valid versus one that is not.
more here: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/modules/mod_delay.html
kindly guide me how can I create password protected FTP? I tried several ways but without password my FTP is working just perfect, and whenever I tried to use it with user and password it isn't working. Please help.