Re: Login and SIGHUP

["Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>]

In message <m23d8wpq1b.fsf@boreas.yi.org.>
	so spake John Fremlin (vii):

> But if you telnet to the machine then cut the network connection or
> just stop sending packets it will just timeout, yes? Why is that
> failure any less failureful than hangup?

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to log in that case as well, though I
don't think doing a password guess attack and letting the connection
timeout is going to be too effective.

 - todd