account lock on failed login

From: Larry (surfunbear_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/10/04

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    Date: 10 Jun 2004 14:29:35 -0700

    Here is the question,

     If several failed attempts to login to an account
    occur, the security auditors want the account to be locked
    so future logins can't occur. This poses a problem
    however as critical automated processes run using that
    account and it's sort of a risk that if someone accidentaly
    tried to log in and failed after 3 attempts or something,
    those processes won't run. We can't use
    a different account. Someone proposed that something would
    automaticaly unlock the account after so many minutes or hours
    but apparently that defeats the purpose. Is there a better solution ?

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