Re: Password retries

2006-07-31 Thread Simon O'Malley
Hi Chris, Maurice Thanks for the replies. Was hoping someone would have already done something as I am under a pretty tight deadline. Dont think the denyhosts route will be a goer as hosts.deny will only be writeable as root and dont want to have to run tomcat as root, change permissions, or st

Password retries

2006-07-27 Thread Simon O'Malley
Hi List Has anyone done anything with tomcat authorisation to configure in a maximum number of retries before an address/account is blocked. I have setup a secure site and want to only give the user a maximum number of 3 tries at logging in before denying them the login ability for a specified p