Re: Password freeze

Hi Craig,

maybe your question is too much off-topic for Oracle experts ;-) or 
everyone knowing the solution is on holidays :-)

I am not sure because I do not use this module, but most modern Linux 
systems (SUSE at least ;-) provide the PAM mechanisms, and there is a 
module called pam_tally.so. In the man page (man 8 pam_tally) I see 
"This module maintains a count of attempted accesses, can reset count on 
success, can deny access if too many attempts fail".

So I think you may try your luck with PAM and PAM_MODULES :-)

HTH
Werner


Craig Ward schrieb:
> Hi again.
> 
> Does the total lack of response to this question mean there is no way to
> freeze the account after several failed logins?  
> 
> We are being pressured by auditors to come up with a way to do this.
> 
> Thanks
> Craig
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Ward [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [suse-oracle] Password freeze
> 
> Hi all - Is there a way to automatically freeze a unix account if there are
> x number of failed login attempts in a row?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Craig Ward
> 
> 803-817-6438
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 


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