Re: Including pam_faildelay module in PAM distribution

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk suse de>]

On Sun, Oct 22, Bjoern Voigt wrote:

> Why we don't include the module pam_faildelay in the standard PAM 
> distribution? This has some benefits:

I wrote it more or less new using the extended Linux-PAM functions
and wrote some documentation for it. It is now in the Linux-PAM CVS.
 
>    * users can find it easier since it's in their distribution
>    * Linux distributors can configure the applications with fail delay
>      be default
>    * the module will be maintained

Hm, adding it to Linux-PAM CVS does not mean that it will be maintained.
If nobody maintians it, it could be that it will be, at some point, 
be removed again.

  Thorsten

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