It would be a good idea if you can limit it to only certain accounts. This feature is available on VMS, on NT and I'm sure it's there on some flavours of unix too. Generally only the root user cannot be locked out of the box.( and if one is smart then the root user can only login from the console. Cheerio Robin Kelvin Ng wrote: > > Hi ; > How do I lock the user account if the particular > user has fail to attempt login to the system more than > 3 times ? Please advise Bad idea. Anybody can lock *you* out by just attempting to login. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://lunateks.com baby.sh: while true; do echo "^G^G^G^G^G"; sed -e 's/food/poop/'; sync; sync; sleep 15; done ---------------------------------------------- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr - att1.eml
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