Hi, On 13.05.2016 16:12, Petr Spacek wrote: > On 13.5.2016 15:25, Thomas Heil wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to reduce the vector of brute force attacks in my web >> application written in php. Users can login via passord and otp which >> are hosted on freeipa. >> >> To achieve this I would like to check the otp first, so no password auth >> is done on the freeipa server and no user can be locked out. >> >> If the otp is correct, the user is now allowed to to login via password+otp. >> >> unfortunately, there is no api method that can check only the otp for a >> user with an identity. >> >> Would it be possible to expose such a new method? > > This would open a new attack vector so it is a bad idea. > > Attacker must not be able to distinguish case where password OR OTP is > correct/wrong. If you allow this, the attacker will be able to crack OTP first > and then continue with password, so you are making it easier.
Okay you are right with that. Sorry. My intention is to avoid to be vulnerable for brute force attacks. I have a trust with an active directory and want to avoid that the user on ad side is locked if otp is wrong. Is this possible? > > Do not do that :-) > Indeed, I will not do that. cheers thomas -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project
