Service Account Keeps Getting Locked Out After Multiple Attempts

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I have a service account that does vuln scanning that keeps getting locked out of a RHEL5 server. For some reason it makes multiple attempts to try and log in and in the process always seems to get locked out.

This vuln scanning software has a service account on this server and the password is set to expire every 180 days. I know the password is good, as I can log in with that service account to test it.

/var/log/secure shows me the multiple attempts that it makes and fails at.

If I look at last and grep on that service account and don't see an entry there.

I'm just wondering if there is a good way to troubleshoot this and figure out why this is happening?

thanks

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