Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV

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PAM_FAILDELAY

Section: Linux-PAM Manual (8)
Updated: 06/04/2011
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NAME

pam_faildelay - Change the delay on failure per-application

pam_faildelay is a PAM module that can be used to set the delay on failure per-application.

If no delay is given, pam_faildelay will use the value of FAIL_DELAY from /etc/login.defs.

debug

delay=N

Only the auth module type is provided.

PAM_IGNORE

PAM_SYSTEM_ERR

The following example will set the delay on failure to 10 seconds:

auth  optional  pam_faildelay.so  delay=10000000

pam_faildelay was written by Darren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>.

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