On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Steinar Kaaro wrote:
I need to block specific users from logging in to UW-imap. My idea was to
create .imaprc files in these users home directories, with this setting:
set maximum login trials 0
There is no specific capability built in to UW imapd to block specific
users from logging in, and as you discovered setting the login trial count
doesn't work. Even if the trial count worked that way (it doesn't),
setting it in a per-user config file can't possibly work because the
per-user config file isn't executed until *after* the user logs in.
If your system uses PAM (most modern systems do), you can set up PAM rules
for imap to disable specific users. Refer to the PAM documentation for
how to do this; I've never done it myself, so I can't tell you how. But I
do know that one of the design goals of PAM is to have all authentication
policy, on a per-server basis, be done under PAM instead of in each
server.
Otherwise, you'll have to modify the loginpw() routine in the c-client
library to implement the policy that you wish.
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