Re: password policy: account idling in distributed systems

Kurt Zeilenga <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ldapext
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On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:

> But I also note that I tend to recommend against enabling account lockout due to excessive failed login attempts, this because doing so enables a DoS attack on user access.   I generally recommend brute force attacks by other means.

insert "hindering" somewhere in the last sentence.... :-)

-- Kurt
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