On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:56 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
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).
If you want to go this route, both denyhosts and pam_abl are available
for Fedora Extras.
Rahul