What is pam_faillock and how to use it in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?
Issue
- What is pam_faillock ? How to implement account lockout policy using pam_faillock.so ?
- pam_tally is deprecated in RHEL6, what can I configure instead of pam_tally ?
- How do I reset/view failure attempts of user for pam_faillock ?
- How can I use pam_faillock to disable a particular user(s) from getting locked out after multiple unsuccessful login attempts?
- Since faillog command (pam_tally) is not available in RHEL 6.1, how do I use pam_faillock instead ?
- Steps to configure faillock in RHEL 6.1
- pam_tally counter reset does not work correctly
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- PAM
- pam_faillock.so
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