Failed login lockout protection in FreeRADIUS

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Sep 14 15:47:51 CEST 2012


On 14/09/12 14:24, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
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> On 14 Sep 2012, at 13:57, mr. s <sigasecure at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> I was reading an article in computer world comparing a few RADIUS servers.
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>> 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



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