Including pam_faildelay module in PAM distribution

[Bjoern Voigt]

Hello!

Since long time I miss support for PAM's pam_fail_delay() function in 
common Linux applications. For instance, OpenSSH and SUDO don't support 
fail delay without special patches.

I discussed this problem already with the OpenSSH developers:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=112166069618320&w=2

The PAM module pam_faildelay

    http://www.zip.com.au/~dtucker/patches/#pam_faildelay

solves the problem with Linux applications which do not have an own 
support for pam_fail_delay very elegant.

The only problem is, that the module pam_faildelay is difficult to find. 
Probably no common Linux distribution has it, see http://www.rpmseek.com/

Why we don't include the module pam_faildelay in the standard PAM 
distribution? This has some benefits:

    * users can find it easier since it's in their distribution
    * Linux distributors can configure the applications with fail delay
      be default
    * the module will be maintained
    * if more users and administrators use applications with fail delay
      support, security will be increased

What do you think?

Greetings,
Björn