Running cronjobs resets the faillock for the user that is running the cronjob.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Running cronjobs resets the failure counter of pam_faillock of that user that is running the cronjob

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • crond
  • pam_faillock

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