Prematurely locked out by Active Directory

Warren Jones wjones at fluke.com
Wed Jan 6 17:20:52 EST 2010


Our site has configured Active Directory so that an account is
temporarily locked after five consecutive failed login attempts.  This
works as expected when I authenticate from a Linux box running MIT
Kerberos 1.6.3.  However, I've noticed a change after updating to
version 1.7:  My account is now locked after a single failed login
attempt, using either kinit or pam_krb5.

Has anyone else run into this?

I've tried the following combinations:

   OS              MIT Kerberos   Results
   -------------   ------------   --------------------------------
   openSUSE 11.0   1.6.3-50.5     works as expected
   openSUSE 11.2   1.6.3-132.1    works as expected
   openSUSE 11.2   1.7-6.1        account locked after one failure
   openSUSE 11.2   1.7-15.1       account locked after one failure

Any insights will be much appreciated.

-- 
Warren Jones
Fluke Corporation

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