[sork] Re: [imp] poppassd - limiting access attempts

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting DV Black <groups@ComputerBums.com>:

> RH 7.1
>    PHP4.2.3
>      HORDE2.1
>        IMP3.1

Okay, well, I'm not sure if this can be done easily or not (though I am
sure it can be done).
 
The passwd web page at http://www.horde.org/passwd/ lists some poppassd 
servers, some of which support PAM.  You would then need the PAM module
to do what you want.  I'm not sure, but maybe the pam_tally module would
work -- Description is:

# pam_tally: this module keeps track of the number of times an attempt is made
to access an account. It can deny access after a specified number of failures.
Root's account can be treated specially. RPMS for newer versions of this module
than the one contained in the source tree are here:
ftp://rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl/pub/People/milek.
Tim Baverstock <warwick@demon.co.uk>

This might work, or be made to work.  You'd need to put in the passwd PAM
setup, not the login one...  There may be other (or even better) PAM 
solutions -- I didn't do an exhaustive search, I just used some existing
knowledge...

-- 
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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