Re: Limiting reading of passwd to slow logins

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 16:46

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john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
: 
: I think more useful, and less obtrusive, is a system that given
: more than L attempts on a given password in the last M minutes
: always returns failure (until N more minutes pass quietly).
: [L, M & N configurable by the sysadmin]

This sounds like the system VAX-VMS uses.
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