Hello,
An easy question for Linux gurus
How can I set up a counter of incorrect tries for local user accounts
on a Linux box, so that after 3 or 5 tries the account gets temporarily
locked out or suspended?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

boomboom999@yahoo.com wrote:

> Any ideas?

From; man passwd

A simple entry in the Linux-PAM configuration file for this service
would be:

#
# passwd service entry that does strength checking of
# a proposed password before updating it.
#
passwd password requisite \
/usr/lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
passwd password required \
/usr/lib/security/pam_unix.so use_authtok
#




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