[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#192849: Please investigate this bug about faillog

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:33:22AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> Note: faillog is working on Woody.

Did you look into the code login/Woody?

> It may be interesting to see when it started failing.

OK. Nevermind. I'll look and try to discover the
precise moment. ;)

> lastb is working. So bad attemp
> > And so on. But what pam module is expected to log
> > failures in faillog file? :-/ IMHO no one.
> 
> Maybe pam_tally can be configured for logging these failures (not tried):
> pam_tally: this module keeps track of the number of times an attempt is
> made to access an account. It can deny access after a specified number of
> failures. Root's account can be treated specially.

Yes, I also looked at this module. But its very purpose
looks different.
-- 
WBR,
xrgtn