Re: looking for package to enhance security on login and dtlogin

From: David A. Guidry (dawidge@enteract.com)
Date: 06/07/02 

Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 13:56:34 -0500
To: "Lee, Elizabeth" <elizabeth.lee.contractor@fnmoc.navy.mil>
From: "David A. Guidry" <dawidge@enteract.com>

At 01:16 PM 6/6/2002, Lee, Elizabeth wrote:
>I am looking for a 3rd party package that will allow us to LOCK an account
>after 3 unsuccessful login/dtlogin attempts on Solaris 6 and Solaris 8. I
>know Solaris itself does not offer that capability, and it is a hard
>requirement of an emerging environment at this site. Fortunately we are
>willing to pay for a package so cheap does not have to be keyword.

According to searchsolaris.com's ask the experts column (watch the linewrap)

http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid12_cid411881_tax286950,00.html

you have two options:
Roll your own/port from linux PAM modules
(www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html)
You probably want to start with pam_limits from the linux-pam
source tree. I can't tell you for sure, I can't get to kernel.org right now.

Symark PowerPassword http://www.symark.com

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