On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 20:44:49 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:52:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
I have been using Debian for about 5 years now. As far as I remember, it
always had the "n failure(s) since last login" message (if n was greater
than zero).
I have never seen that message.
it works reliably on this particular up-to-date sid box, shows the
proper number of failures. I think it must come from login, but I
can't see what might cause to happen or not.
[...]
I do _not_ get this message over ssh, so it must come from that pair
-- login or getty...
I think this is controlled in /etc/login.defs:
#
# Enable logging and display of /var/log/faillog login failure info.
# This option conflicts with the pam_tally PAM module.
#
FAILLOG_ENAB yes
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