pam_faildelay — Change the delay on failure per-application ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DESCRIPTION pam_faildelay is a PAM module that can be used to set the delay on failure per-application. If no delay is given, pam_faildelay will use the value of FAIL_DELAY from /etc/ login.defs. OPTIONS debug Turns on debugging messages sent to syslog. delay=N Set the delay on failure to N microseconds. EXAMPLES The following example will set the delay on failure to 10 seconds: auth optional pam_faildelay.so delay=10000000 AUTHOR pam_faildelay was written by Darren Tucker .