IDS Forum

RE: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F

Posted By: Jonathan Smaby
Date: Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 6:50 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F (LYNKZ MIKE)

I handle user password expiration and self-lock-outs via a daily user
report that goes to key I.T. support reps as well as a message to the
individual user's Exchange email account. This saves us from having to
pass specific authentication failure results to users, hackers,
data-thieves, Sen. Barney Frank, Uncle Sam, and anyone else that wants
to log in. Sort of like handling it on the back-end instead of the
front-end.

My daily report currently includes a message to the effect of:

A) Your Password is about to expire in X days.
B) Your Password has expired X days ago.
C) Your account was placed on administrative lock due to exceeding
allowed incorrect password attempts.

My wish-list and desired enhancements would probably include:

D) Your account was locked because you created a Giant SQL Cartesian
Product in a recent query that brought the system to its knees.

E) Your account was locked because all your outer joins used up
sufficient system resources that brought down Informix and sent a pager
alert at 3:00AM this morning.

F) Your account was locked because you left yourself continuously logged
for the past 3 weeks while holding table and row level locks in the
system.

G) Your account was locked because you're the typical programmer that
lied to the CIO and blamed the Sys DBA's for your sloppy and leaky code
that I spend the last week trouble-shooting for you.

H) Your account was locked because you went whining to the HR department
because of previous account notifications.

But I doubt the Human Resources and Tech Committees would allow those
changes... *SIGH*

Jonathan B. Smaby
Pomona College
Administrative Information Systems Office
on-campus extension: x18506
phone: (909) 621-8506
email: jonathan.smaby@pomona.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of
LYNKZ MIKE
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:22 PM
To: ids@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F [15224]

Actually i was thinking, it could be a solution to let to know
application
when the account is expired, althougth this could be a security breach
again,
but wondering if this is possible??

Thanks in advanced

************************************************************************
*******
Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

-------------------------------------------------------------
This message has been scanned by Postini anti-virus software.

Messages In This Thread

• Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.FC9
  LYNKZ MIKE -- Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 12:08 p.m.
  • RE: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F
    Jonathan Smaby -- Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 12:41 p.m.
  • Re: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F
    Art Kagel -- Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 3:42 p.m.
    • Re: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F
      LYNKZ MIKE -- Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 4:34 p.m.
      • Re: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F
        Art Kagel -- Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 6:03 p.m.
        • Re: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F
          LYNKZ MIKE -- Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 6:15 p.m.
          • Re: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F
            LYNKZ MIKE -- Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 6:21 p.m.
            • RE: Workaround to get 952 when password in 10.00.F
              Jonathan Smaby -- Wednesday, 18 March 2009, at 6:50 p.m.

IDS Forum is maintained by Administrator with WebBBS 5.12.