On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 23:26 +0530, Raj Har wrote: > Hello All, > i want to disable user after 3 attempts for particular time > period. > i have done this with the help of PAM but in this situation root also > disabled for particular time period. i don`t wanna do this for root user. > i hope u will give me some suggestion. > > thanks Have a look at fail2ban. Works for me.