Re: [fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-31 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:56:15PM -0500, Thomas Stover wrote: > > By my second question, I meant Fossil's "Administrator" account, not > > that of windows. Assuming that I don't find a solution for people > > brute-forcing passwords for regular accounts, that's not a big deal. > > However, if pe

Re: [fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-30 Thread Mike Meyer
Thomas Stover wrote: >On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:44:52 +1000 >"Chen, Zon" wrote: >> So ideally we want to be able to limit Fossil's Administrator account >> to only work from the local PC (or better yet, from LAN only.) >ok that makes sense. I do know that you can "unlock" the admin account >by just d

Re: [fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:44:52 +1000 "Chen, Zon" wrote: > By my second question, I meant Fossil's "Administrator" account, not > that of windows. Assuming that I don't find a solution for people > brute-forcing passwords for regular accounts, that's not a big deal. > However, if people can brute-f

Re: [fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-30 Thread Chen, Zon
Thanks Thomas. I'll investigate stunnel. By my second question, I meant Fossil's "Administrator" account, not that of windows. Assuming that I don't find a solution for people brute-forcing passwords for regular accounts, that's not a big deal. However, if people can brute-force the Fossil Ad

Re: [fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thu, 31 May 2012 12:00:48 +1000 "Chen, Zon" wrote: > - By default, there doesn't seem to be a feature to stop brute-force > attacks on passwords, like a max-number-of-invalid-logins thing. Are > there ways to protect our user accounts from such attacks? TLS/SSL (https) is the first step towa

[fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-30 Thread Chen, Zon
Hi, just getting started with Fossil. We're using it mostly for the issue tracker. I'm not very familiar with networking/security in an organisation, so hopefully someone can give me some advice. I've done a search through the mailing list archives for "security", "login attempts", "login lock