From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 13 12:36:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25650 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:36:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from charon.npc.net (charon.finall.com [199.15.61.3] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25645 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:36:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjung@npc.net) Received: from exchange.finall.com (exchange-gw.finall.com [10.0.158.37]) by charon.npc.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA26696 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:35:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mjung@npc.net) Received: by exchange.finall.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.996.62) id <01BE0F1A.520813E0@exchange.finall.com>; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:28:53 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Jung, Michael" To: "'Daniel Hagan'" , "'security@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: security-digest V4 #181 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:28:52 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.996.62 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 >> 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