excessive logins by users

[JP Howard]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:26:23 -0400, "twk" <twk at ncsu.edu> said:
<re: Pegasus>
> David...if you are listening, this should be in units of minutes
> (like every other mail client), not seconds. And I hope that 0 is not
> the default.
>
Yep, we see that regularly too...

> Is there any automated way to deal with this in Cyrus? Can the number
> of logins in a specific time period be limited?
>
We use a custom saslauthd replacement for this, which increments a
counter, by user, on every login, and denies login (and notifies the
user) at certain thresholds. Using a custom daemon is the best way to
tweak the authentication process, in my experience.