Re: Understanding blacklistd blocklists -- 'bad user' doesn't get blocked

Norman Gray <gray@nxg.name> wrote:

> I see that in January last year, 'tanis' noted the same thing in the forum [4], and remarked that a patched version of blacklistd.c, which incremented the wickedness count for such users, didn't cause any surprising problems.  Is there a case for having BL_BADUSER optionally/configurably increment the wickedness counter?

Yeah, that's something bothering me for a while now, and, raising hand, I wouldn't make it "optionally/configurably", I do opt for treating those break-in attempts to user accounts as blacklisting worth as those for administrator accounts!

Regards,
Michael