You are absolutely correct, but Redhat does not tell how to code this into there /etc/sysconfig/authconfig file. So everytime authconfig is run, the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file get overwritten.
Chip
Jon Carnes wrote:
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 09:18, Ralph Blach wrote:
I am running Redhat 9.0 on am amd x86. Its a pretty basic system As the main login shell I run sshd, with ftp and telnet disabled.
I know this is basic, but I looked for an hour on this and could not find it How do I change the number of login tries from 3 before a time out to 1.
It would also be nice to change the time between tries to so.
Thanks
Chip
/etc/pam.d/system-auth password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
Reading the PAM documents will take a good chunk of your time, but it is worth the chunk if such things interest you... :-)
I also suggest you look at /etc/security for some really nifty controls on login times etc...
HtH - Jon Carnes
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