 | | Re: Password checks (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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| (...) A solution to this could be to do the following: - when someone asks for a password reset, create a new password for them, put it in the list, also put it in a special "reset account" password file (along with the ID). - when the user receives (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | |  | | Re: Password crack detection and slowing (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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| (...) Oh! One other thing, duh. An advantage this has over pure semaphores or mutexes is that, since it has a sort of "memory" about how many times an IP address has recent sent a failure, it could easily respond with immediate 403 errors (upon (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | |  | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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| (...) FTP standard ASCII text document, one word per line. Convert to ISO-8859-1 if necessary (character-based search & replace, quick). Feed to indexer via pipe. Walk away, sip coffee, come back later, it's all done. No typing. --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
| | |  | | Password crack detection and slowing (was: Re: LUGNET Memberships)
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| (...) I've been thinking about this more tonight, and reading a bit about SysV semaphores, but I don't have experience with them and I'm finding the docs confusing, especially where Perl is concerned. Anyway, upon further reflection, I wonder if (...) (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | |  | | Re: LUGNET Memberships
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| (...) ^^^...^^^ Ouch! I can only imagine the time it took you to key all that data in. (26 years ago, 26-Sep-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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