[cups.development] Set authentication retries

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Feb 21 04:30:00 PST 2012


CUPS provides some basic denial-of-service attack protection for this sort of thing (MaxClientsPerHost), but feel free to propose additional protections:

	http://www.cups.org/str.php


On Feb 20, 2012, at 11:40 PM, vipul mahajan wrote:
> Then how can I protect from "Brute force attack"?
> 
> 
>> No, that is a feature of the browser.
>> 
>> On Feb 20, 2012, at 1:47 AM, vipul mahajan wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I want to know whether it is possible to limit the no. of retries for authentication attempts in CUPS GUI.
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