PAM_FAILDELAY

Section: Linux\-PAM Manual (8)
Updated: 03/02/2009
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pam_faildelay - Change the delay on failure per-application  

Synopsis

pam_faildelay.so [debug] [delay=microseconds]
 

DESCRIPTION

pam_faildelay is a PAM module that can be used to set the delay on failure per-application.

If no delay is given, pam_faildelay will use the value of FAIL_DELAY from FC/etc/login.defsF[].  

OPTIONS

debug

Turns on debugging messages sent to syslog.

delay=N

Set the delay on failure to N microseconds.
 

MODULE TYPES PROVIDED

Only the auth module type is provided.  

RETURN VALUES

PAM_IGNORE

Delay was successful adjusted.

PAM_SYSTEM_ERR

The specified delay was not valid.
 

EXAMPLES

The following example will set the delay on failure to 10 seconds: 



auth  optional  pam_faildelay.so  delay=10000000

 

SEE ALSO

pam_fail_delay(3), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(8)  

AUTHOR

pam_faildelay was written by Darren Tucker <dtucker@zip.com.au>.