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[Adam Miller]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 02:31:07PM -0400, Ben wrote:
> 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.

You might also take a look at the iptables recent module:

http://www.stearns.org/doc/adaptive-firewalls.current.html

Other articles exist for it as well and I'm sure some google-fu will get
you there.

-AdamM