Lock account after 3 failed attempts.

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Hi All -

Please help me in configure accout lockout after 3 failed login attempts in RHEL6.5. Below the current configuration of my system. However the account is not getting locked out even after several failed logins.

[root@system1 log]# cat /etc/pam.d/password-auth
#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
auth        required      pam_tally2.so deny=3 onerr=fail unlock_time=1200
auth        required      pam_env.so
auth        sufficient    pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth        requisite     pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet
auth        required      pam_deny.so

account     required      pam_tally2.so
account     required      pam_unix.so
account     sufficient    pam_localuser.so
account     sufficient    pam_succeed_if.so uid < 500 quiet
account     required      pam_permit.so

password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 type= reject_username minlen=8 ucredit=-1 dcredit=-1 ocredit=-1 lcredit=-1
password    sufficient    pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
password    required      pam_deny.so

session     optional      pam_keyinit.so revoke
session     required      pam_limits.so
session     [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet use_uid
session     required      pam_unix.so
[root@stlsvrhl001 log]#
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