Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 31 March 2006 19:42, John Summerfield wrote:
> A reasonable security system would shut down the login process
for a
> time after some number of consecutive failed login attempts. It's a
> rule that's been around for a long time, it's even in Linux, but
> implemented poorly.
And how does one go about turning that option on, with say a 15 minute
timeout?
Check out pam_abl on
http://www.hexten.net/pam_abl/ (SourceForge
project).
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