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Old 04-13-2009
How to lock the account after consecutive unsuccessful login in SUSE

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How to lock the account after consecutive unsuccessful login in SUSE Enterprise 10.2 Linux
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Old 04-14-2009
In /etc/default/login define RETRIES=7;
It defines a global limit which, when locking is enabled, will lock accounts after exceeding this count.

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