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Re: E-mail Account authentication issue



> I host e-mail accounts for a few users on my OS X Server.  The only way
> that they access this server is through the POP3 protocol.
>
> It appears that their accounts are locking them out randomly.  It seems
> to happen about once every 1 to 2 weeks.  I am able to fix the issue by
> simply resetting their passwords and saving their account information in
> LDAP.  The other thing to note is that this doesn't happen to every
> account, it seems to be isolated to just a few of them.
>
> Is LDAP this fickle and prone to error, or is there something else going
> on here?

Something else is going on here.

> Does LDAP lock the account after a certain number of incorrect
> login attempts?

It can if you have set that as a policy. Check your global policies in SA
or the user override policies in WGM. If they look clean, check with
pwpolicy to make sure that WGM correctly reflects any policies set for
that user.

Do your PWS logs show any strangeness?

Josh
www.afp548.com

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