Lock account after successive login attempts

herrmag · 02-03-2005, 03:23 PM

I am trying to harden a couple of machines at work Running Redhat 8 (I know,I know, it HAS to be RH8). I simply want users to be locked out of their accounts after 5 unsuccessful login attempts. I know that in Irix and Solaris I simply edit the /etc/default/passwd file (or some variation), but seem to be having difficulty finding such a file on the RH8 boxes. Anyone know a quick way to do this? Much appreciated!

dsyd · 02-03-2005, 06:10 PM

not tried this, but this looks to be of use:

http://fedoranews.org/contributors/sonny_nguyen/pam/

you'll need the pam_tally module installed, which i believe can be found here:

http://www.baverstock.org.uk/tim/pam/pam_tally/