On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 05:10, Hurd, Steve wrote: > I'm looking to use PAM (under RH 7.2) to enforce a "too many bad login > attempts & you're locked out" policy. I've done a fair amount of pawing > around & haven't seen anything yet that addresses this (of course, I may > just not be understanding what I was seeing!) I really appreciate it if > someone be kind enough to point me in the direction of a good reference as > to how to do this? You should have pam installed on your computer, so go to /usr/share/doc/pam-0.75/txts and read the README.pam_tally. It can do what you want. -- Nils Olav Selåsdal <NOS@Utel.no> System Developer, UtelSystems a/s w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m