Pam_Tally2 User Lockouts. (Kaydo)

[Kaydo]

Thank you for the response Peter but faillog is for the pam_tally module and
not pam_tally2.  

 
- Kaydo


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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:15:59 -0500
From: "Kaydo" <kaydo at rice.edu>
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Subject: Pam_Tally2 User Lockouts.
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>Hi,

>I've configured user lockouts using the pam_tally2 module but I have a
>question.  Is there a command that I can run that will tell me whether
a
>user's account is locked out from this module or not?  If I run passwd
-S
><user> it doesn't say that the account is locked, I'm thinking this
only
>works if the account was locked using usermod -L.  I know I can use
>pam_tally2 command to see the failed login counts, but it would be
great if
>there were a command that would directly tell me if a user was locked
out
>due to this module.  Anybody know of such a command?

>Thanks guys,

Of course, you know about the faillog program.  Faillog -u userid tells
you if that userid is locked out, and faillog -u userid -r resets the
account.  Check the man pages for more info.

Peter
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