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mcsestretch 03-17-2003 03:19 PM
Red Hat Account Lockout
 
Please forgive this VERY newbie question:

Most operating systems I've run across can lock out an account after (for example) 5 missed attempts at a password.

Can Red Hat do this and if so, how?

Thanks for the information!!

Stretch
:newbie:

unSpawn 03-18-2003 06:37 AM
In /etc/pam.d/system-auth, line containing "pam_cracklib.so", arg retry=<x times>.


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