Configuring maximum number of password attempts

Alan DeKok aland at ox.org
Thu Jun 2 20:10:36 CEST 2005


Martin.Ward at uk.neceur.com wrote:
> However, I can't find a way of locking out the user if they enter an
> invalid password three times in a row. I've trolled through the LDAP stuff
> but can't find anything in there. Is there a way I can create a password
> policy  to do this?

  Not really, because FreeRADIUS is probably pulling the passwords out
of LDAP, and doing the authentication itself.

  If FreeRADIUS is calling ldap to do the authentication, then maybe
there's something in OpenLDAP to implement the password policy.

  Alan DeKok.




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