Re: PAM lockout (was: clash of civilizations)

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Subject: Re: PAM lockout (was: clash of civilizations)
From: Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers@yahoo.com>
Date: 09 Feb 2002 01:03:38 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 87k7tnf86t.fsf_-_@liliwhite.open.oasis>
In-reply-to: ogrewe@wiwi.hu-berlin.de's message of "Sat, 9 Feb 2002 07:41:23 +0100"
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ogrewe@wiwi.hu-berlin.de writes:

> Almost unanimously, security standards for NT boxes suggest to 
> configure an account lock after several unsuccessful login attempts. 
> Searching the web in and out didn't show me anything similar for 
> linux based systems. Is this concept too alien to linux to be 
> implemented or should I - once again - question my research 
> capabilities?

pam_tally seems to do this:

http://www.sable.demon.co.uk/pam/pam_tally/

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