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Re: Account Lockouts

Subject: Re: Account Lockouts
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:34:25 +0530 (IST)
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Harrison Gladden wrote:
What are successfull techniques that could be used on the web
interface to avoid having a script run against it that would
potentially lock out 15000 user accounts, and create a headache for
the system administrators who have to manually unlock each account?

Why not throw a Captcha after X bad attempts ? And if you continue to see right Captcha word with bad password, then lock the account after Y attempts.


You could also think about blocking the IP address if you see too many bad login attempts from a specific IP address.

- Kalyan

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