[sork] FWD: password changing as guest

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>:

>   Here at Auckland Uni. it's really nice to allow users not to have to login
> to
> change passwords as we use a central authentication mechanism where a way to
> change your password in not easy.

I agree this is a nice feature.  We're only debating this as the default 
setting, not as an option/feature.

>   We use a logchecking daemon to scan thru logs and report/act upon on
> anomalies
> thru a central syslog server. I'd be more than willing to share this code. It
> essentially allows you the ability to lock the user's account if more than
> five unsuccesful attempts are made.

I'm reposting this to the sork mailing list, as there is a question about this
right now from a user, and it is relavent to sork.

>   Just my 2 cents.
> 
> Thanks,
> Harry

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

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