Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 - locking out users afer 3 failed attempts

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:26:18PM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:

Hi

I am trying to lock users after 3 attempts and then set the timeout before they can log in again. I thought i could achieve this with

auth required pam_tally.so deny=3 unlock_time=600

in /etc/pam.d/system-auth but it seems to not be the case - I cant find a working config for this anywhere and i wonder if anyone has one they can share?

thanks

I'm not familiar with this module, but it looks like there's a userspace tool 'pam_tally' which you could use to query the tally files.

Might be worth confirming that the login failures and such are even being tracked correctly.

Any errors in your logs? A brief perusal of the man page seems to indicate that your syntax is correct...

Ray