RE: Linux Fedora Core 2: Password, Login, and Pam

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pam-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:pam-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tomas Mraz
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 4:48 AM
> To: Pluggable Authentication Modules
> Subject: Re: Linux Fedora Core 2: Password, Login, and Pam

Thanks to Tomas for the reply.

> > 2.  Lockout an account for time X after three failed attempts.
> This should be achievable using pam_tally.so but the 
> functionality is partly broken and also not much secure (even 
> after lockout it can reveal succesfull password break attempt 
> to attacker).

Is anyone aware of an active effort to fix this?  Would selinux be a place
to look?

Thanks.

Tom Browder

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