Mr. Crawford,

  Thank you, for that!  I had an inkling that was all there was to it, but
I had read a blog somewhere on pam_faillock that was using language like
"needs to be in /etc/pam.d/login".



- Sean Alderman

"Peace begins with a smile." - Blessed Mother Teresa

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Crawford, Nicholas P CTR USARMY RDECOM
CERDEC (US) <[email protected]> wrote:

> They're cascaded via the "include" directives included in login (as well as
> most others, i.e. sshd, gdm, sudo).
>
> Thus system-auth changes carry over to all other subsystems, not just
> login.
>
> Man pages for system-auth and system-auth-ac give some background.
>
> The use of pam.d/login in the pam_faillock man page is simply an example on
> its use.
>
> -Nick
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 2:41 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Question on use of pam_faillock.so in
> > account lockout remediation
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was curious if someone could point me toward the reasoning behind
> > why these remediation scripts are using /etc/pam.d/system- auth and
> > /etc/pam.d/password-auth?  It seems like the man page for pam_faillock
> > directs the usage to /etc/pam.d/login instead.
> >
> > Thank you kindly,
> >
> >
> > --Sean
>
>
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