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pam_faildelay — Change the delay on failure per-application

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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 /etc/
login.defs.

OPTIONS

debug

    Turns on debugging messages sent to syslog.

delay=N

    Set the delay on failure to N microseconds.

EXAMPLES

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

auth  optional  pam_faildelay.so  delay=10000000


AUTHOR

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