Re: Account lockout error code/message differences for correct and incorrect password

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On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 18:49 +0000, albert.luo@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am doing some experiements with account lockout password policy. The account is locked out after many wrong password tries.
> 
> Then
> If bind with correct password, the result is
> #<OpenStruct extended_response=nil, code=19, error_message="Exceed password retry limit. Please try later.", matched_dn="", message="Constraint Violation">
> 
> if bind with wrong password, the result is 
> #<OpenStruct extended_response=nil, code=49, error_message="", matched_dn="", message="Invalid Credentials">
> 
> So attacker can still continue to try/guess different passwords until he get the result of : code=19, error_message="Exceed password retry limit. Please try later.".
> 


When you say "account lockout" you are referring to the setting:

dn: cn=config
passwordMaxFailure: 4
passwordLockoutDuration: 600

Correct?

If so this may be a security issue. Please confirm the settings you are
referring to here,

Thanks, 

-- 
Sincerely,

William Brown
Software Engineer
Red Hat, Australia/Brisbane

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