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

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 15:45, Jon Carnes wrote:

> 
> You might need to restart PAM after making a change to the system-auth
> file.
> 

PAM is not a service or process that can be "restarted."  It is a
collection of system libraries that are dynamically loaded by
processes.  Therefore, you will need to restart any application that
*uses* PAM for these changes to take effect -- in this case, it would be
sshd.

--Jeremy

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