Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:26:36 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Langa Kentane <LKentane@mweb.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Security question Message-ID: <19990225162636.A46163@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F3181789704F6@za12nt02.mweb.com>; from Langa Kentane on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 09:23:03PM %2B0200 References: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F3181789704F6@za12nt02.mweb.com>
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On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 09:23:03PM +0200, Langa Kentane wrote: > I have been caught up in the evil of Micro$oft for a while now. What I want > to know is whether or not there is some way in FreeBSD that you can lockout > an account after a certain number of unsuccessful logons. I don't know offhand how to do that, but one thing to keep in mind is that if you lock out a user because of too many unsuccessful logins, then anybody can deny service to one of your users by logging in unsuccessfully. That is, I might not want to break into your system, I just try logging in with your password and get you locked out in order to annoy you, distract you, keep you from getting work done, whatever. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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