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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:56:59 am | by TomGreen | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:29:20 pm | by ChrisSamuel | 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.)
+The pam_tally project homepage is here:
+
http://www
.baverstock
.org
.uk
/tim
/pam/
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).
+
+pam_tally provides similar functionality to pam_abl (http://www.hexten.net/pam_abl/).
