On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Roland Roland <r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com>wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Can anyone please help out with configuring PAM?
> I've checked a couple of tutorials online..
> though most of them are related to Login though I want to set PAM up for
> SSH logins...
> I've set the max erroneous logins to just THREE and even after trying to
> login with an error pass I still can get in...
>
>
I use a combination of /etc/login.defs and the faillog utility to set this.
>From the faillog manpage:
-m, --maximum MAX
Set maximum number of login failures after the account is disabled
to MAX. Selecting MAX value of 0 has the effect of not placing a
limit on the number of failed logins. The maximum failure count
should always be 0 for root to prevent a denial of services attack
against the system.
> also is there a way I could enable the PAM module which uses crack library
> to check the strength of a users password?
>
> This should do it:
http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/pam_cracklib.html
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