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Operating Systems AIX AIX; Auto clearing of 'too many invalid login attempts by user' Post 302101522 by Keith Johnson on Tuesday 2nd of January 2007 02:54:19 PM
Old 01-02-2007
Tools AIX; Auto clearing of 'too many invalid login attempts by user'

Does anyone have a good script / cron job that handles this?

I have looked in smit and see it is clearing this count with:
chsec -f /etc/security/lastlog -a "unsuccessful_login_count=0" -s '{userid}'

However when I looked around to find ways to automate this I have not found an easy solution.

I know that the file .../lastlog is a text file however I am not good at stanza filtering. Thus do not know who has hit the limit to pass to the chsec command.


user1:
time_last_login = 1167758143
tty_last_login = /dev/pts/2
host_last_login = joe.somewhere.com
unsuccessful_login_count = 2
time_last_unsuccessful_login = 1166659165
tty_last_unsuccessful_login = /dev/pts/4
host_last_unsuccessful_login = joe.somewhere.com

user2:
time_last_unsuccessful_login = 1166735510
tty_last_unsuccessful_login = /dev/pts/0
host_last_unsuccessful_login = jane.somewhere.com
unsuccessful_login_count = 5
time_last_login = 1166738412

any help would be great. -KJ
 

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PTS_QUIT(1)						       AFS Command Reference						       PTS_QUIT(1)

NAME
pts_quit - Exit from pts interactive mode SYNOPSIS
pts quit [-cell] <cell name> [-noauth] [-localauth] [-force] pts q [-c] <cell name> [-n] [-l] [-f] DESCRIPTION
The pts quit command exits from pts interactive mode. The command can be run from the command line or interactively, but on the command line it does nothing and is therefore of questionable utility. CAUTIONS
Prior to OpenAFS 1.4.5 and OpenAFS 1.5.23, the pts quit command was only available on Unix or Linux and when OpenAFS was compiled with the supergroups option (disabled by default). As of OpenAFS 1.4.5 and 1.5.23, it is always available. OPTIONS
Although they have no effect, pts quit takes the following standard pts options: -cell <cell name> Names the cell in which to run the command. For more details, see pts(1). -force Enables the command to continue executing as far as possible when errors or other problems occur, rather than halting execution at the first error. -help Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored. -localauth Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local /etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. Do not combine this flag with the -cell or -noauth options. For more details, see pts(1). -noauth Assigns the unprivileged identity anonymous to the issuer. For more details, see pts(1). OUTPUT
This command produces no output. EXAMPLES
Here is an example of a pts interactive session: % pts interactive pts> quit % SEE ALSO
pts(1), pts_interactive(1) COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007 Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> This documentation is covered by the BSD License as written in the doc/LICENSE file. This man page was written by Jason Edgecombe for OpenAFS. OpenAFS 2014-04-08 PTS_QUIT(1)
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