Bug in pam_tally on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1(Tikanga).

[Tomas Mraz]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:27 +0000, Tangren, Bill wrote:
> Will this work for RHEL ES 4.5 as well, or are there modifications
> needed?
> 
No, you have to use something similar to:

> 
> following lines works for RHEL-3 & RHEL-4 version with pam-0.77-66.23
> version without any problems but not working for RHEL-5
> 
> auth        required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_tally.so onerr=fail
> no_magic_root
> account     required      /lib/security/$ISA/pam_tally.so per_user
> deny=3 no_magic_root reset

> 
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Tomas Mraz
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