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| author | Karel Zak | 2011-11-07 11:04:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2011-11-07 11:04:44 +0100 |
| commit | f950752b90a5d9f2a6733aeaa30569459514ff9f (patch) | |
| tree | fbf737622900d92ac6b8de1e15be5e0271388372 /login-utils/login.1 | |
| parent | prlimit: add --{raw,noheadings} options (diff) | |
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login: clean FAIL_DELAY usage
... with this patch: login(1) always uses sleep(FAIL_DELAY) before
exit() if user is not authenticated or his PAM session is not fully
initialized.
Note that user has three attempts to write his password before
login(1) is terminated.
Reported-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'login-utils/login.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | login-utils/login.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/login.1 b/login-utils/login.1 index d9d833394..93ab82c91 100644 --- a/login-utils/login.1 +++ b/login-utils/login.1 @@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ Max time in seconds for login. The default value is 60. .PP \fBFAIL_DELAY\fR (number) .RS 4 -Delay in seconds before being allowed another attempt after a login failure. -The default value is 5. +Delay in seconds before being allowed another three tries after a login +failure. The default value is 5. .RE .PP \fBTTYPERM\fR (string) |