From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: auditing account lockouts
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:13:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110101013.06113.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2B97F4E65AFD84DA1A7B3BEC35E17140149E9350822@hailstorm.faac.com>
On Monday, October 10, 2011 09:54:00 AM Steve M. Zak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Through experimentation and per Red Hat tech support when the deny=x switch
> is set in /etc/pam.d/login as below
>
> auth required pam_tally2.so deny=5 onerr=fail
>
> the lockout happens at 5 failed attempts, but the audit trail does not
> record it until the next try.
The man page says that the account lockout occurs when the tally _exceeds_ the deny
parameter. To lockout on 5 failed attempts, use deny=4.
-Steve
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