Unix administration - Re: How to disable login after too many attempts

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Re: How to disable login after too many attempts

Jim Hollenback

2004-12-06, 5:51 pm

phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
: googlemail2003@yahoo.com wrote:
: > Nobody has to come in at 2 am. If a user's account is locked they call
: > me or someone else with root privelidges and we reset their password.

: Did it ever occur to you that your or root's account might be locked out ??

A properly designed system that employees lock out on the accounts will always
allow logins on the console for root. Of course, that might involve a drive in
during a cold snowy or rainy night :-(

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Jim Hollenback
jholly@cup.hp.com
my opinion.