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Inspiring
March 5, 2009
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login attemps

  • March 5, 2009
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I wanted to see if there was way to monitor login attempts on our site.
I figured I could easily have all login attempts email to me but is there a better way? Does the ColdFusion server log this anywhere?
Thanks
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    Inspiring
    March 12, 2009
    you could possibly set a session variable and have also a hit counter for their account using a cookie and place to 0 on initial first login... then as they try again you +1 then after 3 attempts mail you the information of the username /password trying to login
    sic4730Author
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2009
    I will look into the cflog. Thank
    sic4730Author
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2009
    Sorry.
    The login is a user login page on our site which uses coldfusion. This will allow access to certain webpages based on user security rights.
    Users are authenticated by a sql database.
    Participating Frequently
    March 5, 2009
    So you have all your login logic already written in Coldfusion. Just add a <cflog..> statement to the part of your code that determines a login failed.
    Participating Frequently
    March 5, 2009
    How do you manage logins and validate users? Does your site use a database? If so, you could store login infomation in a table there.
    Inspiring
    March 5, 2009
    sic4730 wrote:
    > I wanted to see if there was way to monitor login attempts on our site.
    > I figured I could easily have all login attempts email to me but is there a
    > better way? Does the ColdFusion server log this anywhere?
    > Thanks
    >

    What type of login?
    Login to the web server?
    Login in controled by the web server?
    Login to ColdFusion administrator?
    Login in logic built into a ColdFusion application?
    Something else