From owner-freebsd-security Thu May 27 19:10:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from zip.com.au (zipper.zip.com.au [203.12.97.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A26414CAC for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 19:10:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb@zip.com.au) Received: from localhost (ncb@localhost) by zip.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA04449 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 12:10:28 +1000 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:10:27 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Brawn To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Locking out accounts after repeated failures Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm interested to know if freebsd has the capability to lock out users after 5 consecutive bad login attempts, with the "counter" being cleared after each successful login. If it is capable, could someone please point me to the right documentation/files. Cheers, Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message