What's the difference between pam_tally.so and pam_tally2.so that to lock a account after input wrong password for several times.

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Issue

  • What's the difference between pam_tally.so and pam_tally2.so that to lock a account after input wrong password for some times.
  • Unable to find pam_tally.so module in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • pam
  • pam_tally2
  • Pam_tally

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