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


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