Re: Mega-newbie question

On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 05:10, Hurd, Steve wrote:
> I'm looking to use PAM (under RH 7.2)  to enforce a "too many bad login
> attempts & you're locked out" policy.  I've done a fair amount of pawing
> around & haven't seen anything yet that addresses this (of course, I may
> just not be understanding what I was seeing!)  I really appreciate it if
> someone be kind enough to point me in the direction of a good reference as
> to how to do this?
You should have pam installed on your computer, so go to 
/usr/share/doc/pam-0.75/txts and read the README.pam_tally. It can
do what you want.
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Nils Olav Selåsdal <NOS@xxxxxxx>
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