Hi Ole,

I need to implement something exactly like what you described below. Have
you created such a filter already? 

Thanks,

Xuejin


ole ersoy wrote:
> 
> I've been toying with the idea of making a filter as well.  I think it
> could be done by creating a CAS ServletContextLister that creates a data
> structure for storing:
> 
> - user
> - number of attempts
> - time of last attempt
> 
> The filter then grabs this data structure from the CAS ServletContext and
> uses it like this:
> 
> If a user has made an attempt to login within say the last 15 minutes, the
> number of attempts is incremented, given that it's not already at the max. 
> If it's at the max then the user gets a message saying that they have to
> wait X minutes before trying to login again.  If the user has made a login
> attempt before, but the attempt was made more than 15 minutes ago, then
> the filter resets the number of attempts to 1, and the cycle starts over
> again.
> 
> If this were made as a component to CAS it should probably be an Action
> that is invoked before the initialFlowSetup.  So if user is allowed to
> attempt to login, then the next step is the initialFlowSetup, otherwise
> it's the too many attempts view-state.
> 
> Cheers,
> - Ole
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ??? wrote:
>> Thanks for your advice Ole, I've done some researches on Geronimo and it 
>> seems overkill to me.
>> It seems best for me to write a simple filter using session to control
>> the 
>> attempting.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Li Wei Nan
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ole Ersoy" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Yale CAS mailing list" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 4:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: Is there a way to protect login page against a frequent
>> submit?
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi Li,
>>>
>>> You can do this with a servlet filter that intercepts cas login
>>> requests. 
>>> You would have to get the principal user, see if they have attempted to 
>>> login with a specified time period, and redirect them to another page 
>>> explaining that they have made too many login attempts and that they
>>> must 
>>> wait X minutes before attempting again.  I think Geronimo has something 
>>> like this built in, but I'm still looking around for a standalone 
>>> implementation.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> - Ole
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Li Wei Nan wrote:
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a plug-in or something like custom view could be used in
>>>> cas-webapps to protect cas from malicious credential/principal sniffer?
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe there's some configuration I can do in tomcat to achieve
>>>> this goal which I don't know yet?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your helps,
>>>>
>>>> Li Wei Nan
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