login attemps

[sic4730]

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

[Newsgroup_User]

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

[paross1]

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.

[sic4730]

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.

[Kronin555]

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.

[sic4730]

I will look into the cflog. Thank

[Lithcause]

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