Number Of Allowed Wrong Login Attempts

Asset ID:	1-71-2014877.1
Update Date:	2016-11-04
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Solution 2014877.1 : Number Of Allowed Wrong Login Attempts

Applies to:

Oracle Communications EAGLE (Software) - Version E5-MS 45.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

Whenever the E5-MS GUI client is launched, the user is prompted at E5-MS Authentication screen to login to the system.

If the user makes a wrong login attempt, the system will increment the count of wrong login attempts for that user by one. The count is reset to zero at every successful login.

If the user has reached the maximum allowed number of unsuccessful login attempts, the user account is locked and a corresponding message is displayed to the user.
A locked user account is no longer allowed to login the E5-MS.

By default the maximum allowed number of unsuccessful login attempts value is set to 5 in configuration file. This value is definable by E5-MS Administrator.

Solution

E5-MS Administrator can define the maximum allowed number of unsuccessful login attempts by setting the desire value in configuration file or reset the value to zero to disable the enforcement of this rule for all E5-MS users.

1. Login E5-MS command line as user "root".

2. service e5msService stop

3. Open and edit the configuration file "Tekelec/WebNMS/conf/NmsProcessesBE.conf".
- search for the line contains the field "maximum_allowed_login_failed_count".
- set the field to the desire value. Below example setting the unsuccessful login attempts to 6.
PROCESS com.adventnet.nms.security.authentication.NmsAuthenticationManager
ARGS AuthenticationImpl NULL maximum_allowed_login_failed_count 6
- Save and exit the file.

4. Service e5msService start

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