[Dovecot] SQL/LDAP Lockouts?

Dan Stromberg strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu
Thu Dec 9 22:42:11 EET 2004


This sounds like something that should go in a pam module.

Then again, the convention net.wisdom at least -used- to be that this
was a bad idea, because it became an easy DOS attack.

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 17:14 +0000, Paul Reilly wrote:
> This isn't really related, but has anyone implemented
> account lockout policies with Dovecot? ie: 5 wrong passwords
> and the account locks out. Is this possible with any of
> the MySQL or LDAP authentication back ends?
> 
> Paul
> 
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