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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers block user account after failed password Post 302433839 by kopper on Wednesday 30th of June 2010 05:07:12 PM
Old 06-30-2010
thanks for the info

the point is

Code:
auth        required      pam_tally.so onerr=fail per_user deny=3 lock_time=180

or 
account     required      pam_tally.so reset lock_time=180

it won't work

no matter where I put lock_time=180 either line what I want does not work

---------- Post updated at 04:07 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:02 PM ----------
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
One side note -

You do not want accounts like oracle, root, or other major resource owners accounts locked on a production system. If you have people hacking accounts on a production system you should consider other approaches - than lockout.

interesting what you say what other approaches you think I should use or you are using?

thanks
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

logins

LOGINS(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 LOGINS(1)

NAME

     logins -- display account information

SYNOPSIS

     logins [-admopstux] [-g groups] [-l logins]

DESCRIPTION

     The logins utility displays information about user and system accounts.

     The following options are available:

     -a 	Display information about the password change and account expiration times for each account.

     -d 	Select accounts with duplicate UIDs.

     -g groups	Select accounts that are members of the specified groups.  If multiple group names are specified, they must be separated with com-
		mas.

     -l logins	Select accounts matching the specified login names.  If multiple names are specified, they must be separated with commas.

     -m 	Show information about secondary groups.

     -o 	Display the information for each account on a single line of colon-separated fields.

     -p 	Select accounts with no password.

     -s 	Select system accounts.  These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs below 1000, plus the ``nobody'' account (UID 65534).

     -t 	Sort selected accounts by name rather than by UID.

     -u 	Select user accounts.  These are currently defined as accounts with UIDs above 1000, except the ``nobody'' account (UID 65534).

     -x 	Display information about each account's home directory and shell.

     If multiple selection options are specified, all accounts matching any of the selection criteria will be displayed.

     If no selection options are specified, all accounts will be displayed.

SEE ALSO

     getgrent(3), getpwent(3), group(5), passwd(5), pw(8)

HISTORY

     The logins utility appeared in FreeBSD 4.10.

AUTHORS

     The logins utility was written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> based on similar utilities in other operating systems.

BSD
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