Re: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread ajay brar
mechanism of maybe storing ip addresses, (though a malicious user could spoof these). regards Ajay From: "Janusz Dziadon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Janusz Dziadon
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:24 PM Subject: Re: Login Security > Several organizations expose the same IP address for most or all users. You'd be > blocking entire organizations because of one bad login. > > --- Janusz_Dziadoñ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thi

RE: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Hookom, Jacob
You could apply what I described by defining the key as username+"@"+ip Good idea! -Original Message- From: Janusz Dziadon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 4:20 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Login Security I think, that you shoul

Re: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Hubert Rabago
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:46 PM > Subject: RE: Login Security > > > > Do a HashMap in the action: > > > > Key is username > > Value is Integer or Date &g

Re: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Janusz Dziadoń
kom, Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:46 PM Subject: RE: Login Security > Do a HashMap in the action: > > Key is username > Value is Integer or Date > > If ((value =

Re: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Pedro Salgado
Does that sound ok? > > Ciaran > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 December 2003 20:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Login Security > > Avoid the cookie solution, it's too e

RE: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Hookom, Jacob
Btw, remember to flush the map for that username when they are able to login successfully. -Original Message- From: Hookom, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:46 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Login Security Do a HashMap in the action: Key

RE: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Hookom, Jacob
: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:43 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Login Security I am storing the username and password in a table in a mySql database. I think I will just add a field "last_failure" to the user table... and after 3 unsuccessful attempts I wil

RE: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Ciaran Hanley
OTECTED] Subject: RE: Login Security Avoid the cookie solution, it's too easy for the user to bypass your security measures and as mentioned below, this solution won't work if the browser has disabled cookies. Don't block IP addresses because they can be easily spoofed and redirected

RE: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread John . Pitchko
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RE: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Fullam, Jonathan
ssage- From: Ciaran Hanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Login Security I'm writing a web application using JSP and Struts. I want to add a security feature to my login page where if a user has three unsuccessful logins th

Re: Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Pedro Salgado
One idea The third time the login fails, register the time for that user. When a login gets executed, if the last registered time for the given user is less than the time interval you want -> the login always fails. The user must have something like: User : id || login | password | la

Login Security

2003-12-16 Thread Ciaran Hanley
I'm writing a web application using JSP and Struts. I want to add a security feature to my login page where if a user has three unsuccessful logins they will be unable to log in for a certain period of time afterwards. I can count the number of unsuccessful logins ok but how I'm not sure how to giv