RE: Notification of number of unsuccessful login attempts

["Clark, Patti" <clarkp osti gov>]

Since the count is cleared as soon as the user is successful in their
login attempt, how/where would pam_tally be used?

Patti 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pam-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:pam-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Jose Plans
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:43 PM
> To: Pluggable Authentication Modules
> Cc: nahant-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Notification of number of unsuccessful login attempts
> 
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:30 -0400, Clark, Patti wrote:
> > While login offers up the last login notice, is there a way to also
> > provide the number of unsuccessful (failed) login attempts 
> for a user
> > account?  I have pam_tally tracking these and didn't find 
> any options
> > to display that information to a user.
> 
> I guess ... /sbin/pam_tally[2]
> 
>       Jose
> 
> 
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