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Distribution: Debian testing 64bit at home, EL5 32/64bit at work.
Posts: 196
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Rep:
Thanks acid_kewpie, et al:
I've entered the configuration and gave it a try with a testing user. I've tried to login 7 times in a row, giving a bad password each time - but on the 8th time I can still login without delay or a warning.
Would pam.d somehow interfer with this functionality? I have pam_tally.so to disable an account after 10 failed attemps.
Did you reboot before testing ?
Many configuration changes only take effect if a module is stopped and restarted, the configuration being read when it starts then held in memory.
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