PAM for blocking multiple login attempts

[Jason Gerfen]

pam_tally, I haven't used it myself but there were a few discussions 
about using it, where to get it etc on this list recently.  Search the 
archives of this list and I am sure you will find them.  Hope that gets 
you started.

Digant C Kasundra wrote:

>Last I heard, someone was working on a module that would deal with
>multiple login attempts for a single ip.  The module wouldn't block the
>account from logging in, but that ip.  On my campus, we see attacks
>where a robot will try multiple usernames and passwords and I want to be
>able to block that ip automagically when this happens.
>
>-- DK
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