Patch for Bad Password Attempt Lockout, samba3.0a22.

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Mar 27 21:43:56 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 07:40, Simo wrote:
> You can already do that through pam_tally, what does your approach add ?

We can't correctly trigger pam_tally from the encrypted password check. 
Also, the pam_tally is dodgy - it doesn't correctly handle 'oh, they got
it right'.  (It makes assumptions about the way applications call PAM).

Andrew,

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