On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> According to Jose Angel Amador Fundora: While burning my CPU.
> >
> >
> > It is not necessary to fiddle with the sources for for this.
> > Check /etc/login.defs.
>
> I am possably over looking something then, as i belive the only way to do
> what John wants is to recompile the login program with a longer default
> timeout, its 60 seconds default.
>
> If you belive that /etc/login.defs can be told to use a longer timeout,
> please let us know how you do it, as 'man login.defs' has no mention of any
> timeout feature.
>
Hello Richard and all, and Happy New Year.
In my slackware linux, /etc/login.defs file (near the end of the file) is
this line:
#
# Max time in seconds for login
#
LOGIN_TIMEOUT 60
#
Now, changing this value to 90 results in a 90 second wait-time for
password. So, login does actually read this file. However, the gentleman
said the magic word, RedHat, and that puts normal configuration on an
entirely different plane. But, it's worth a try to put the above line in
his login.defs and see if it flies. I would suspect that the compile time
value is a "default" value if not otherwise specified.
Hope this helps.
> --
> Regards Richard.
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>
> Happy New Year, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
>
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73, Ronnie.
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