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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: bug (?) in login limits from login.conf
In-Reply-To: <84824.921776366@axl.noc.iafrica.com> from Sheldon Hearn at "Mar 18, 99 06:59:26 pm"
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> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:23:42 +0100, Zahemszky Gabor wrote:
> 
> > If there are any login restrictions (time/host or line) in /etc/login.conf,
> > login responds with:
> > <time restriction>:
> > ``Logins not available right now''
> 
> While your comments are fair enough from a security-minded point of
> view, you need to consider the confusion and frustration that your users
> will experience when they type their username/password correctly and get
> exactly the same message they'd get if they were typing their password
> incorrectly.

Well.  In that case, it would be better to say:
Time restriction
Host restriction
Tty restriction
or something like that, to distinguish them.  Now, I cannot say: wrong host/
wrong line, or maybe /etc/login.access ;-)

Bye, Gabor

ZGabor at CoDe dot HU

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