Re: Password freeze

"Peter Gervais" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.oracle.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
oops sorry, I should have read closer! 

>>> Bennett Leve <[email protected]> 11/8/2007 10:11 AM >>>
Craig's orginal email stated freezing a UNIX account so I also assumed

this was not Oracle related so did not respond.

-Bennett

Werner Flamme wrote:
> 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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