Failed login lockout protection in FreeRADIUS

Arran Cudbard-Bell a.cudbardb at freeradius.org
Fri Sep 14 16:05:17 CEST 2012


On 14 Sep 2012, at 14:47, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at IMPERIAL.AC.UK> wrote:

> On 14/09/12 14:24, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>> 
>> On 14 Sep 2012, at 13:57, mr. s <sigasecure at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I was reading an article in computer world comparing a few RADIUS servers.
>>> 
>>> It said that FreeRADIUS had "failed login lockout protection", however I can't find that particular verbiage in the FreeRADIUS documentation, FAQ or HowTos.
>>> 
>>> Can anyone point me to what this may be referring to or clear up my confusion.
>> 
>> Well the server doesn't explicitly implement this. You could use something like SQL/Redis xlat to maintain a failed login counter for each user.
> 
> We've used something like this in the past. See:
> 
> http://wiki.freeradius.org/lockout

Cool :) can you use the hierachy when creating new pages?

moved to

http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/lockout

Thanks,
Arran


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