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Diffstat (limited to 'modules/pam_tally/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | modules/pam_tally/README | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/modules/pam_tally/README b/modules/pam_tally/README index 06e8f092..93ceb2ae 100644 --- a/modules/pam_tally/README +++ 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. |