[TriLUG] How do I change the allowed number of login attempts from 3 to 1

[Ralph Blach]

Jon,

You are absolutely correct, but Redhat does not tell how to code this into there
/etc/sysconfig/authconfig file.  So everytime authconfig is run, the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file
get overwritten.

Chip

Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 09:18, Ralph Blach wrote:
> 
>>I am running Redhat 9.0 on am amd x86.  Its a pretty basic system
>>As the main login shell I run sshd, with ftp and telnet disabled.
>>
>>I know this is basic, but I looked for an hour on this and could not find it
>>How do I change the number of login tries from 3 before a time out to 1.
>>
>>It would also be nice to change the time between tries to so.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Chip
> 
> 
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth
>   password    required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
> 
> Reading the PAM documents will take a good chunk of your time, but it is
> worth the chunk if such things interest you... :-)
> 
> I also suggest you look at /etc/security for some really nifty controls
> on login times etc...
> 
> HtH - Jon Carnes
>