Re: Account Lockout in Solaris 8
Kevin L Prigge <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:09:38PM -0000, Kenneth Denski wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to implement account lockouts in Sun Solaris 8? I want to set it so that after 3 bad login attempts, the user is locked out and must be reset by the Admin. > > Is there any way to do this? Not with stock Solaris 8, AFAIK. I'm guessing you've been tasked with implementing this based on a requirement from your Audit area. Make sure they know that there are real DOS possibilities with a scheme such as this, and just because this functionality was available on IBM mainframes, it doesn't make it a good or useful idea. -- Kevin Prigge, SCNA # Internet Services # University of Minnesota #