There's actually different expiration policies for TGTs that can prevent
that.  I would take a look at them if you have not.

Though I'm also surprised the browser didn't stop that insanity!


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ourada, John <[email protected]> wrote:

> We ran into a problem over the weekend and yesterday where a single user
> was able to affect performance of our current production cas server (3.4.6
> on Tomcat 6.0.28 on Windows).  We haven’t moved to our new HA setup using
> Linux and Terracotta : (.****
>
> ** **
>
> An external organization is working with us to provide services to our
> Library and students and we are using CAS for the authentication component.
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> The organization had a really really bad bug in their software that caused
> them to fail the validation and send the client back to us for
> authentication.  The client was actually authenticated and so were sent back
> to the organization with a new ServiceTicket.  This happened really fast…  I
> logged 20K ST’s for this user in under 10 minutes yesterday alone.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> I see where I can throttle UNsuccessful login attempts, but what about
> successful ones : ).****
>
> ** **
>
> -john****
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