[SunHELP] To disable login if failed for 3 attempts.

[Mike's List]

Install tcp_wrappers.


- Mike


On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, C, Guruprasad (MED) wrote:

> Greetings,
> I have one question.
> How to disable login (telnet or ftp or any rlogin) and warn user(display
> text message), if user failed to login 3 times, may be due to wrong password
> or wrong user name.
> Is it a standard security service provided by any OS or do we have to
> implement it ?.
> I will sumarize the answer for the list.
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> Guru.
> 
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