Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:28:52 -0500 From: "Jung, Michael" <mjung@npc.net> To: "'Daniel Hagan'" <dhagan@acm.vt.edu>, "'security@FreeBSD.ORG'" <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: security-digest V4 #181 Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=Financial_Allian%l=EXCHANGE-981113202852Z-51251@exchange.finall.com>
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In NT you can control Account Lockout policies by user account. If you don't desire this behavior just change the policies. --mikej Michael Jung mjung@Npc.net >-----Original Message----- >From: Daniel Hagan [SMTP:dhagan@acm.vt.edu] >Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 9:55 PM >To: security@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: security-digest V4 #181 > >On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, security-digest wrote: > >> From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> >> Subject: Re: Intruder Lockout > >[snip] >> right either :). Besides which, suppose someone enters the wrong password >> in the POP or IMAP mail reader -- it may retry the connection several >> times (if set to check mail often) before the user notices, and lockout >> can occur quickly in that kind of situation. >[snip] > >Having been suckered into part-time WinNT administration, I can confirm >this. We have users who print through our servers from Win95 boxes. When >they put the wrong password in (to access the domain resources), the Win95 >boxes bang on the domain until the account gets locked out and I have to >clear it. What a pain in the butt. > >Daniel > >-- >Daniel Hagan http://www.acm.vt.edu/~dhagan/ Head Admin >dhagan@acm.vt.edu PGP 2.6.2 encouraged ACM at VT > "The world is coming to an end. Please log off." > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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