[imp] login_tries option...

[Anant Athavale]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Anant Athavale <asa at isac.gov.in>:
>
>> Dear List:
>>
>> I applied the patches for the latest stable release of IMP 4.1.3.
>>
>> It was taking long time to tell the user that password is wrong.  I  
>>  thought, by setting login_tries = 1 in my server.conf, this time   
>> should reduce.  But, it does not look like.
>
> What is "long"? And did the setting have any influence at all? What's
> in the IMAP logs? What else did you try?
>
> Jan.

I checked the logs, it was trying thrice before I applied the patch  
and added login_tries option.  And now also, it is trying thrice.

Aug  7 17:50:54 isacmail2 imap[30750]: badlogin:  
isacmail2.isac.dos.gov.in [127.0.0.1] plaintext asa SASL(-13):  
authentication failure: checkpass failed
Aug  7 17:50:57 isacmail2 imap[30750]: badlogin:  
isacmail2.isac.dos.gov.in [127.0.0.1] plaintext asa SASL(-13):  
authentication failure: checkpass failed
Aug  7 17:51:00 isacmail2 imap[30750]: badlogin:  
isacmail2.isac.dos.gov.in [127.0.0.1] plaintext asa SASL(-13):  
authentication failure: checkpass failed



Aug 22 15:36:54 isacmail2 imap[3877]: badlogin:  
isacmail2.isac.dos.gov.in [127.0.0.1] plaintext asa SASL(-13):  
authentication failure: checkpass failed
Aug 22 15:36:57 isacmail2 imap[3877]: badlogin:  
isacmail2.isac.dos.gov.in [127.0.0.1] plaintext asa SASL(-13):  
authentication failure: checkpass failed
Aug 22 15:37:00 isacmail2 imap[3877]: badlogin:  
isacmail2.isac.dos.gov.in [127.0.0.1] plaintext asa SASL(-13):  
authentication failure: checkpass failed


So, looks like no effect of the new setting.  But, as per the  
document, it should have tried 9 times before applying the patch.


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Regards,

Anant.