How to use pam_faillock in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7 to lockout users due to successive failed login attempts

Solution Verified - Updated 2024-06-13T19:24:44+00:00 -

Issue

What is pam_faillock?
How to implement account lockout policy using pam_faillock.so?
How do I use pam_faillock in RHEL7?
pam_tally is deprecated in RHEL6, what can I use instead?
How do I reset/view failed login attempts for a user with faillock?
How can I exclude users from being locked out by pam_faillock?
Since faillog command (pam_tally) is not available in RHEL 6, how do I use pam_faillock instead?
pam_tally counter reset does not work correctly

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