[vchkpw] lock account after login failures

Hi there...   I'm using vpopmail's vchkpw to authenticate imap, pop3 and smtp. (plain - cdb, w/o ldap or mysql) All services should be accessible from outside. Now i have got the following question: is it possible that vchkpw locks an account after - let's say - 5 password failures to p

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Hi... is this problem unsolvable, or did i say something wrong? --- Hi there... I'm using vpopmail's vchkpw to authenticate imap, pop3 and smtp. (plain - cdb, w/o ldap or mysql) All services should be accessible from outside. Now i have got the following question: is it possible that vchkpw loc

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] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. September 2003 16:13 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: WG: [vchkpw] lock account after login failures Feucht, Florian writes: > is this problem unsolvable, or did i say something wrong? Doing it the way you suggest, counting failures, means remembering state somewhere,

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> Perhaps he did, but "locked out CONNECTIONS from that IP for 10 minutes" > reads differently to me. If Tom had meant what you said, then I would > have expected something like "locked out authentication attempts from > that username/IP pair for 10 minutes." This idea is great, but doesn't wo