> For most cases it's very simple to get around this by attempting a
password, killing the process after 100ms if it doesn't answer and
retrying.

This does not actually work, since as an user you are not allowed to
kill a suid root process. So you can only fork processes like hell,
which is bound by nproc.

I still think that this is a sensible security measure.

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Annoying and useless delays on password entry errors
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