Hi Craig,

maybe your question is too much off-topic for Oracle experts ;-) or
everyone knowing the solution is on holidays :-)

I am not sure because I do not use this module, but most modern Linux
systems (SUSE at least ;-) provide the PAM mechanisms, and there is a
module called pam_tally.so. In the man page (man 8 pam_tally) I see
"This module maintains a count of attempted accesses, can reset count on
success, can deny access if too many attempts fail".

So I think you may try your luck with PAM and PAM_MODULES :-)

HTH
Werner


Craig Ward schrieb:
> Hi again.
>
> Does the total lack of response to this question mean there is no way to
> freeze the account after several failed logins?
>
> We are being pressured by auditors to come up with a way to do this.
>
> Thanks
> Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Ward [mailto:cward@(protected)]
> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:57 AM
> To: suse-oracle@(protected)
> Subject: [suse-oracle] Password freeze
>
> Hi all - Is there a way to automatically freeze a unix account if there are
> x number of failed login attempts in a row?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig Ward
>
> 803-817-6438
>
>
>
>
>


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