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From: paulm@kestrel.sgi.com (Paul Mielke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: logging on
Keywords: why does it take so long??????
Message-ID: <1432@odin.SGI.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 89 18:49:29 GMT
References: <2830@uceng.UC.EDU>
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Reply-To: paulm@kestrel.sgi.com (Paul Mielke)
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In article <2830@uceng.UC.EDU>, trohling@uceng.UC.EDU (tom rohling) writes:
> 
>      Does anyone (SGI - are you listening??) have any idea why it takes so
> long (4 - 5 seconds!) for our 4D to realize that you have incorrectly 
> entered your login name or password?  At first I figured it was just the 
> way things are, and what can you about it.  Then when we were upped to OS
> version 3.1415..... I thought it may be fixed, nope.  Well maybe after it
> became a 120GTX running 3.1D, nope.  

... stuff omitted ...
> 
>      A good explanation of this would be appreciated.
> 
> 				Much obliged,
> 					
> 				Tom Rohling
> 				University of Cincinnati
> 

This is a feature, not a bug.  The login program does a sleep(4) after each
invalid login attempt.  The idea is to make it harder to break into a system
with a program that attempts to guess passwords.  Sorry to disappoint you,
but it still works that way in 3.2.

Regards,

Paul Mielke                  paulm@sgi.com
Advanced Systems Division    (415) 962-3447
Silicon Graphics, Inc.