pam_faildelay8
Change the delay on failure per-application
Usage
pam_faildelay.so [debug]
[delay=microseconds]
Overview
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.
Module types provided
Only the auth module type is provided.
Return values
PAM_IGNORE
Delay was successfully 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
Releases
10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 8 times.