Those are very valid questions.

1. Yes so i guess there could be a default value in the code so that it could always be set to 3 unless
    set by the admin.
2. I am not sure how to handle this, as if you only had read access to the database then there would be no way to set this up, unless you created some sort of hashmap in the code to store which users
   were locked and which were not.
3. I was just thinking of using the standard log file output. did you have something else in mind ?

Regards


On 1 May 2006, at 20:44, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:

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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