PAM Problem with pam_tally

[Paul Whitney]

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Actually, works fine now. I used an executable called faillog. I will try
the pally out tomorrow at work.

The --reset option requires two or one hyphen?

P.

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On 5/3/07 2:50 AM, "Scott Ruckh" <sruckh at gemneye.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 19:48 -0400, Paul Whitney wrote:
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>> I have a problem with the tally option. I have set the max retry's to 3.
>> When I type in the wrong password three times, I manage to lock out the
>> account. I thought I set the lockout time to 900 seconds (15 min) and set
>> the retry. 
>> 
>> Apparently the account is completely locked out and I cannot figure out how
>> to unlock it.
>> 
>> Paul
> 
> Have you tried 'pam_tally --reset'?  This assumes you installed the PAM
> tally utilities.  You can also reset the PAM tally for an individual
> user.  I believe the syntax is 'pam_tally --reset -u username'.  I think
> running pam_tally without any parameters will list the different
> options.
> 
> I am not sure if the helps your situation or not.  If you believe all
> the other account settings look like the account should be enabled then
> resetting the tally should be a good place to start.
> 
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