begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:14:49AM -0700: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Carl Lowenstein > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > > Just be careful you don't fumble-finger your own password and lock > > yourself out. > > This is precisely my problem. I could never live with a system that > would lock me outon a single attempt at login.
A 90-second lockout on failure might be acceptable, and reduce the amount of doorknob-rattling significantly. I wonder if you could do an exponential backoff to, oh, say a quarter hour? > This might be OK for Andrew though since he is using keys. Maybe I > should figure out how to do that. You're always using your own laptop? Or are you using library machines / kiosks / etc? -- Big long list of things to do, itty bitty window of time to do it. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
