Bug#427716: gdm: RetryDelay has no effect

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Jun  6, 2007 at 23:19:24 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le mercredi 06 juin 2007 à 13:06 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> > From looking at the code in GDM, it doesn't seem to call pam_fail_delay
> > itself; that code seems disabled.  Instead, it has its own sleep calls.
> > I didn't realize that pam_unix calls pam_fail_delay itself.
> > 
> > It looks like I can make this delay go away for gdm by putting "nodelay" on
> > the pam_unix line in /etc/pam.d/gdm (which will require replacing the include
> > of common-auth with its contents).  However, I don't see any way to reduce the
> > delay without turning it off completely.
> 
> Maybe you can use "nodelay" for the PAM configuration and then add a
> RetryDelay in GDM.
> 
Josh, did this suggestion work for you?

Cheers,
Julien
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