VNC Security

[myron_in_da_house@yahoo.co.uk]

Would be better if the lock-out policy was implemented like Windows server does.

You have so many attempts then the account get's locked out for the nominated duration, but there is also a counter of attempts that only gets zeroed after another set duration.



At 00:30 28/06/2004, William Hooper wrote:
>myron_in_da_house "at" yahoo.co.uk said:
>[snip]
>> 
>> Should be configurable.  For instance, two bad password attempts and VNC
>> server will then give a bad password response even if the password is
>> correct, but then you have to leave VNC server alone for, say 3 minutes,
>> before the lock out is release and another two attempts are allowed.
>
>There is already a limit on the speed of password attempts.
>
>http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2000-May/014378.html
>
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