Pam modifications

Brian Fahrlander brian at fahrlander.net
Tue Nov 28 10:38:40 UTC 2006


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Scott J. Henson wrote:

> But the magic is:
> auth    required        pam_tally.so    deny=3,lock_time=30
> 
> It should go into /etc/pam.d/common-auth and be placed ahead
> of pam_unix.
> 
> If the above doesn't work I'm going to need a more involved
> explanation of your authentication scheme.

    Interesting; this exact code will lock, alright...but it won't
"unlock" (allow a login after 30 minutes) by itself. Is there no one
that considers himself really *comfortable* with this software?

   (The author has been unavailable, and the docs don't match the code...)

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