From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 16:27:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02B014EA1 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:27:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.2/8.9.1) id QAA46240; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:26:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:26:36 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Langa Kentane Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Security question Message-ID: <19990225162636.A46163@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F3181789704F6@za12nt02.mweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F3181789704F6@za12nt02.mweb.com>; from Langa Kentane on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 09:23:03PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * 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