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Re: Login failure tracking

From: Alain Palamara <alain.p_at_ces.ch>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:18:28 +0100

>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using svnserve as a service on our server and try to control repositories
>> accesses by the way of the password and authz files. I set all the hooks
>> scripts to log activity (in a process to learn more what I can do, for now)
>> and one thing that I saw, is in case of a authorization failure, is that nothing
>> is reported by my hooks (start-commit, pre-commit, post-commit, pre-revprop-change,
>> post-rev-prop-change, pre-lock, post-lock, pre-unlock, post-unlock).
>>
>> First of all, did I miss a hook script?
>>
>
>svnserve --log-file
>
>(in 1.6)
>
>> Is there a way to catch the autentication phase?
>>
>
>Log it? There are no "on-failed-auth" hooks.

Of course I don't want to log it, I just need to track unsuccessful attempt.

Does it mean there is no way to automatically block a brute force attack
(someone trying a username with a lot of passwords)?

>> Thanks, Alain
>>
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