Re: pam/sshd question: allowing a user to try logging in more than once

[Jeremy Brown <jeremy@brownjava.org>]

Michael Sims wrote:

> Jeremy Brown wrote:
>  
>
> > > The subject line is fairly self-explanatory.  Currently users who
> > > connect to my debian testing machine at work are prompted for their
> > > username, then their password only once.  If a user enters a bad
> > > password, he or she is kicked out immediately and must open a new ssh
> > > connection in order to try again.
> > >      
>
> Hi,
>
> Please see this archived message:
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=debian-user&m=109890625028036&w=2
>
> HTH
>
>
>  
Check out my 2nd message.  I'm authenticating against an LDAP server and 
thus require PAM.

I know this can be done with PAM.  I have a Fedora Core box that 
authenticates against LDAP for OpenSSH (via PAM), and it requests my 
password 3 times if invalid.

Jeremy