Re: Password freeze

Hm - not sure about my own answer...

Peter answers with an Oracle approach (since we are on an Oracle list 
here), I read "freeze a unix account" and answered shellish ;-)

Maybe Craig says something about what he's going to freeze?

Regards,
Werner

Peter Gervais schrieb:
> Craig,
> 
> You may achive this functionality throught the use of profiles.
> Once you have a profile set up:
> 
> ALTER PROFILE pro_name FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS 3;
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Peter
> 
>>>> "Craig Ward" <[email protected]> 11/8/2007 7:59 AM >>>
> 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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