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authorSteve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>2019-01-22 14:54:11 -0800
committerSteve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>2019-01-22 14:54:11 -0800
commitf00afb1ef201b2eef7f9ddbe5a0c6ca802cf49bb (patch)
tree402838c53047b0e21466a653ae88d86a8e4b7b65 /modules/pam_tally/README
parent795badba7f95e737f979917859cd32c9bd47bcad (diff)
parent1cad9fb2a0d729c5b5e5aa7297c521df7d5a2d33 (diff)
New upstream version 1.3.0
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diff --git a/modules/pam_tally/README b/modules/pam_tally/README
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+++ b/modules/pam_tally/README
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ reason pam_tally is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
pam_tally comes in two parts: pam_tally.so and pam_tally. The former is the PAM
module and the latter, a stand-alone program. pam_tally is an (optional)
application which can be used to interrogate and manipulate the counter file.
-It can display users' counts, set individual counts, or clear all counts.
-Setting artificially high counts may be useful for blocking users without
-changing their passwords. For example, one might find it useful to clear all
-counts every midnight from a cron job. The faillog(8) command can be used
-instead of pam_tally to to maintain the counter file.
+It can display user counts, set individual counts, or clear all counts. Setting
+artificially high counts may be useful for blocking users without changing
+their passwords. For example, one might find it useful to clear all counts
+every midnight from a cron job. The faillog(8) command can be used instead of
+pam_tally to to maintain the counter file.
Normally, failed attempts to access root will not cause the root account to
become blocked, to prevent denial-of-service: if your users aren't given shell
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ GLOBAL OPTIONS
onerr=[fail|succeed]
- If something weird happens (like unable to open the file), return with
+ If something weird happens (like unable to open the file), return with
PAM_SUCCESS if onerr=succeed is given, else with the corresponding PAM
error code.