michael wrote:
I've tried and tried but failed and failed to determine where the
setting is for the delay post wrong user/pass at the gdmgreeter screen.
It current seems about 90 secs which is a bit too long
Unless you've changed something those timeouts sound very long. Our
systems allow a retry after about 5 seconds or so.
If you're seeing the same effect for both console and ssh then it's not
going to be a gdm setting but rather something related to pam.
The normal place to configure this is in /etc/login.defs where you can
specify something like:
LOGIN_TIMEOUT 20
.. but this isn't set by default in fedora. You can also get the same
effect by modifying files in /etc/pam.d using the pam_tally module.
Again this is also not set by default in fedora.
Another possibility is that you have a misconfigured /etc/nsswitch.conf
file, such that logins which fail to authenticate against /etc/passwd
are trying to contact an unavailable nis or ldap server.
If you're only using local authentication then your nsswitch file for
logins should read:
passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files
.. if you have anything in addition to files try removing it and seeing
if your retry times fall considerably.
Hope this helps
Simon.
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