Problems setting up pam_tally / faillog

I’m attempting to configure Debian 4.0 to lock user accounts after 3 failed login attempts.

I’ve added:

account required pam_tally.so _onerr_=fail deny=3

as the first non-commented line in /etc/pam.d/common-account and

auth required pam_tally.so per_user magic_root _onerr_=fail

as the first non-commented line in /etc/pam.d/common-auth. When I run faillog I get:

username 16 3 10/08/10 11:03:43 -0400 192.168.0.1

but when I try to login as username via ssh or su -, I am still able to login if I give a valid password. Is there any good resource for configuring pam_tally and faillog other than their man pages?

Thanks,

Max Brustkern

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