Re: Account Lockout in Solaris 8

Kevin L Prigge <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.sun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:09:38PM -0000, Kenneth Denski wrote:
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> 
> 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.

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