No, Rodrigo, I don't.
I am talking about attack which affects FTP as well.
AFAIK, both mail & ftp need PAM to authorise.
If attack on mail succeds in affecting PAM, all services that rely on it are
in trouble.
I think people were talking about something similar about 2 weeks ago.
Best,
--
Arthur Sherman
> You might be confusing swatch with an attack,
>
> "swatch" (I think that is system watch) Does Access FTP every
> 15 minutes to check whether FTP, SMTP , and other services
> are alive and reports them to the GUI and thorug mail if it
> finds problem.
>
> On the log you see a simple log in and log out
>
> HTH
>
> Rodrigo O
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Sherman [mailto:arturs (at mark) netvision.net.il]
> Sent: Martes, 14 de Agosto de 2007 04:53 p.m.
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:10583] Re: FTP Issues
>
> > Have a BQ server with the SolarSpeed load and just recently the FTP
> > appears to being attacked server ftp up then down every
> 15mins anyone
> > esle have or had this issue?
> > Thank you
> > --
> >
> > Richard C. Barker Sr.
>
> I do.
> As far as I (and others on the List) have discovered, the
> attack vector is on PAM, through mail actually.
> When PAM fails, FTP fails as well.
>
> Though I am not 100% sure yet.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Arthur Sherman
>
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