Mark Michael wrote:
> First post ... forgive any unintentional netiquette faux pas here ...
>
> Is there any way to configure a policy in its attributes (or failing that, 
> something specific in a principal's attributes) that would mandate that the 
> KDC would set -allow_all_tix after a maximum number of failed password 
> attempts?  I spent about two hours looking around, re-reading what I could 
> find on the web and docs.sun.com as well as the ORA owl book, and couldn't 
> find anything.  I know I can use kadmin modprinc -allow_all_tix on a 
> principal to lock the principal, and +allow_all_tix to unlock it, but I can't 
> seem to find anything that will do the lock for me automatically.
>   
There is nothing that will do this automatically, alas the "failed 
password attempts" field in the principal's record is not updated given 
that a multi-master environment currently does not exist.  Please have 
yourself added to RFE:

4892447 Implement account lockout feature in SUN SEAM kerberos.

so that we can keep track of this demand.

Shawn.
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