How to Delete my System with login fail count

nusz · 09-03-2007, 07:46 PM

if someone try to login fail in 5 time.
I want to format same partition on my redhat.

How to do that. that is posible ?

thankyou for any answer.

lostnhell · 09-03-2007, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by nusz

if someone try to login fail in 5 time.
I want to format same partition on my redhat.

How to do that. that is posible ?

thankyou for any answer.

You could setup a cron job that scans the output of syslog for the failed attempts and if a failure is detected it will delete your chosen files. I do not think you can delete the partition, because it will be your working partition that contains the OS and commands needed to complete the action.

stress_junkie · 09-03-2007, 07:55 PM

It would take a long time to securely erase a partition. Better to encrypt the partition. Then you don't have to delete anything. If the computer falls into the wrong hands they won't be able to decrypt the partitions.

Deleting the system based on failed login attempts doesn't make sense anyway. If someone took your computer they could put the hard disk into one of their computers.

Encryption is the only secure solution.