Password Lockout Examples

The following examples illustrate how the Cloud Access Service CAS password lockout works.

In all examples, the administrators has configured 4 unsuccessful password attempts before lockout and a lockout duration of 30 minutes.

Four Unsuccessful Password Attempts

Time in Minutes	User Activity
00:00	User1 has first unsuccessful password attempt.
00:01	User1 has second unsuccessful password attempt.
00:02	User1 has third unsuccessful password attempt.
00:03	User1 has fourth unsuccessful password attempt. CAS locks the password method for this user for 30 minutes.
00:25	User1 submits a password attempt (either with correct or incorrect password). CAS ignores the request because the method is locked.
00:33	CAS unlocks the password method for the user and resets the number of unsuccessful password attempts.
00:56	User1 completes password authentication.

Time in Minutes

User Activity

00:00

User1 has first unsuccessful password attempt.

00:01

User1 has second unsuccessful password attempt.

00:02

User1 completes password authentication.

CAS resets the number of unsuccessful password attempts.

Time in Minutes	User Activity
00:00	User1 has first unsuccessful password attempt.
00:15	User1 has second unsuccessful password attempt.
00:29	User1 has third unsuccessful password attempt.
00:59	CAS resets the number of unsuccessful password attempts.
01:00	User1 has first unsuccessful password attempt.
01:02	User1 completes password authentication.

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