12 Sep
2020
12 Sep
'20
9:47 a.m.
On 9/12/20 1:48 AM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote:
Succeeding even once should clear the log of failures, thus giving you another three attempts. This seems reasonable to me. Is this not working as advertised?
I didn't lock the box to check. I was going though faillock.conf to determine if it would allow some setting that would do just that. (the notes didn't indicate a clearing on success). If it works that way, then it would be fine. I have had times when I am using sudo heavily (several times a minute) and if the fails were cumulative over the default period that would be a problem. I'll check that this works on a local box, I didn't want to risk a test on a remote box. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.