sounds like a useful feature, are you considering

1. That the feature must be 100% backwards compatible, ie work if they dont specify the column or the column doesn't exist 2. That some database admins might only give you a read only connection, so the column exists but is not writable
3. How to alert a sysadmin if a user has been locked out

Filip


Benjamin Cuthbert wrote:
All

I am trying to improve the security for authenticating users on my JDBC realm. What we require is the ability to lock out accounts on the database when a user enters more than 3 incorrect passwords. Now i have made some changes to the JDBCRealm.java and i would like some comments on the features that i have added. Could someone from the tomcat team have a look at the attached code and configuration file and let me
know if this is the correct way to go about doing this.

Changes -

authenticate : Adding in a counter to check how many times a user gets the incorrect password from the database. LockAccount : new method to handle the update to the database so that accounts can be locked.

Testing -

I have tested this on OSX as that is the system i use, but i am going to do some further testing on linux as that is what the server
application is installed on.

server.xml config would be


      <Realm  className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm"
             driverName="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"
          connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/tomcat"
         connectionName="tomcat" connectionPassword="tomcat"
userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass"
          userRoleTable="user_roles" roleNameCol="role_name"
          accstatusCol="accountstatus" acclockouttry="3"/>


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