Differences between version 3 and predecessor to the previous major change of pam_tally(8).
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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:29:20 pm | by ChrisSamuel | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Friday, January 16, 2004 9:07:17 am | by JoachimDurchholz | Revert |
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The pam_tally.so PAM module is intended to denying further authentication attempts after a given count of failed authentications.
pam_tally is the maintenance program for pam_tally.so: it can list and reset the accumulated counts.
See http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/pam/Linux-PAM/modules/pam_tally/README?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=HEAD for details. (I don't know whether this is the authoritative source though.)
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+Note that this only uses a local file (defaults to /var/adm/faillog) and has no facility to use LDAP or similar systems to combine results from several machines (or a cluster).
