[arch-dev-public] Pam lockout

[Tobias Powalowski]

Hi,
the 3 attempts are default. It is not overridden in the config. It was just
a transition to the new module.

greetings
tpowa

Am Fr., 11. Sept. 2020 um 16:26 Uhr schrieb Evangelos Foutras via
arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org>:

> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 17:05, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public
> <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > I third you and Levente's opinion. This is a sane upstream default and
> should
> > be handled by users, if they wish to. We shouldn't deviate from upstream
> in this
> > case.
>
> It's not an upstream default though. It's enabled by
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth which is part of pambase.
>
> It breaks sudo as well. I don't believe it makes sense to lock the
> user out after only 3 failed attempts.
>
> I would just remove pam_faillock.so from pambase. :)
>


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