pause on bad password

[Darren Tucker]

Will McDonald wrote:

> The default behavior of pam_unix_auth.so (on Linux) is to sleep for a couple
> of seconds if the user enters a bad password to prevent brute force attacks. I
> haven't been able to find anything on the web about this, but is there an
> option to turn this behavior off (or an equivalent module that doesn't do it)?

pam_unix.so has a no "nodelay" option, try that.

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