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Paul Mielke
paulm at kestrel.sgi.com
Wed Nov 15 05:49:29 AEST 1989
In article <2830 at uceng.UC.EDU>, trohling at uceng.UC.EDU (tom rohling) writes:
>
> Does anyone (SGI - are you listening??) have any idea why it takes so
> long (4 - 5 seconds!) for our 4D to realize that you have incorrectly
> entered your login name or password? At first I figured it was just the
> way things are, and what can you about it. Then when we were upped to OS
> version 3.1415..... I thought it may be fixed, nope. Well maybe after it
> became a 120GTX running 3.1D, nope.
... stuff omitted ...
>
> A good explanation of this would be appreciated.
>
> Much obliged,
>
> Tom Rohling
> University of Cincinnati
>
This is a feature, not a bug. The login program does a sleep(4) after each
invalid login attempt. The idea is to make it harder to break into a system
with a program that attempts to guess passwords. Sorry to disappoint you,
but it still works that way in 3.2.
Regards,
Paul Mielke paulm at sgi.com
Advanced Systems Division (415) 962-3447
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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