clash of civilizations

[krams@grewe.net]

Hi,

this is something I wondered quite some time about. It definetely 
doesn't meet the narrow definition of this list's purpose but I 
thought it might be worth to ask anyway.

Almost unanimously, security standards for NT boxes suggest to 
configure an account lock after several unsuccessful login attempts. 
Searching the web in and out didn't show me anything similar for *nix 
based systems. Is this concept too alien to *nix to be implemented or 
should I - once again - question my research capabilities?

Any ideas?

Thanks
	Olaf


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