XYGATE User Authentication Reference Manual

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XYGATE

User Authentication

™

Reference Manual

Appendix B: The UAACL File

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B14: AUTHENTICATE_FREEZE_PERIOD

The AUTHENTICATE_FREEZE_PERIOD option allows you to freeze a user

temporarily.

The XUA install program creates a database named UAQUEUE. When a user is

frozen because the keyword AUTHENTICATE_FAIL_FREEZE is set to ON and has an

AUTHENTICATE_FREEZE_PERIOD in the UAGROUP or specified in the UACONF

globally, then XUA will make an entry in the UAQUEUE database specifying when the

account should be unfrozen. The UA server will periodically check the database and

unfreeze accounts as needed.

Note: When AUTHENTICATE_FREEZE_PERIOD elapses and the XUA process

unfreezes a user, this mimics an administrator thawing a user from SAFECOM,

which resets the count to zero for the number of failed authentication attempts

for the user.

Syntax:

AUTHENTICATE_FREEZE_PERIOD <seconds>

If user 80,1 or the alias "xytest" in the Example below reaches the failed logon

attempt of 3, then XUA will freeze the user and make an entry in the database to thaw

the user after 120 seconds.

Example:

UAGROUP Temporary-Freeze

Description "Temporarily freeze after failed attempt"

FROM_USER $EVERYONE

TO_USER 80,1 ALIAS:"xytest"

AUTHENTICATE_MAXIMUM_ATTEMPTS 3

AUTHENTICATE_FAIL_FREEZE ON

AUTHENTICATE_FREEZE_PERIOD 120

Note: The value for the keyword AUTHENTICATE_FREEZE_PERIOD entered should

be greater than zero; otherwise, XYGATEUA will report syntax errors.

What-if commands to view the records in the UAQUEUE database :

queueprocess - invokes the processing routine

queuelist - displays entries from the database

queuedelete - deletes all entries from the database

Example: How to view the records in the UAQUEUE database

Access check:queuelist

Time User Action

2010-02-08 11:57:25.896137 xytest THAW

00001 record displayed

The DDL file "UAQUEDDL" supplied with XYGATEUA installation has a dictionary

reference that can be used to run a report on the database.