clash of civilizations

[ogrewe@wiwi.hu-berlin.de]

Hi,

this is something I wondered quite some time about. It definetely 
doesn't meet the narrow definition of this lists purpose but I 
thought using debian-powerpc might entitle me 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 
linux based systems. Is this concept too alien to linux to be 
implemented or should I - once again - question my research 
capabilities?

Any ideas?

Thanks
	Olaf


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