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+pam_tally — The login counter (tallying) module
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+DESCRIPTION
+
+This module maintains a count of attempted accesses, can reset count on
+success, can deny access if too many attempts fail.
+
+pam_tally has several limitations, which are solved with pam_tally2. For this
+reason pam_tally is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
+
+pam_tally comes in two parts: pam_tally.so and pam_tally. The former is the PAM
+module and the latter, a stand-alone program. pam_tally is an (optional)
+application which can be used to interrogate and manipulate the counter file.
+It can display user counts, set individual counts, or clear all counts. Setting
+artificially high counts may be useful for blocking users without changing
+their passwords. For example, one might find it useful to clear all counts
+every midnight from a cron job. The faillog(8) command can be used instead of
+pam_tally to to maintain the counter file.
+
+Normally, failed attempts to access root will not cause the root account to
+become blocked, to prevent denial-of-service: if your users aren't given shell
+accounts and root may only login via su or at the machine console (not telnet/
+rsh, etc), this is safe.
+
+OPTIONS
+
+GLOBAL OPTIONS
+
+    This can be used for auth and account module types.
+
+    onerr=[fail|succeed]
+
+        If something weird happens (like unable to open the file), return with 
+        PAM_SUCCESS if onerr=succeed is given, else with the corresponding PAM
+        error code.
+
+    file=/path/to/counter
+
+        File where to keep counts. Default is /var/log/faillog.
+
+    audit
+
+        Will log the user name into the system log if the user is not found.
+
+    silent
+
+        Don't print informative messages.
+
+    no_log_info
+
+        Don't log informative messages via syslog(3).
+
+AUTH OPTIONS
+
+    Authentication phase first checks if user should be denied access and if
+    not it increments attempted login counter. Then on call to pam_setcred(3)
+    it resets the attempts counter.
+
+    deny=n
+
+        Deny access if tally for this user exceeds n.
+
+    lock_time=n
+
+        Always deny for n seconds after failed attempt.
+
+    unlock_time=n
+
+        Allow access after n seconds after failed attempt. If this option is
+        used the user will be locked out for the specified amount of time after
+        he exceeded his maximum allowed attempts. Otherwise the account is
+        locked until the lock is removed by a manual intervention of the system
+        administrator.
+
+    magic_root
+
+        If the module is invoked by a user with uid=0 the counter is not
+        incremented. The sysadmin should use this for user launched services,
+        like su, otherwise this argument should be omitted.
+
+    no_lock_time
+
+        Do not use the .fail_locktime field in /var/log/faillog for this user.
+
+    no_reset
+
+        Don't reset count on successful entry, only decrement.
+
+    even_deny_root_account
+
+        Root account can become unavailable.
+
+    per_user
+
+        If /var/log/faillog contains a non-zero .fail_max/.fail_locktime field
+        for this user then use it instead of deny=n/ lock_time=n parameter.
+
+    no_lock_time
+
+        Don't use .fail_locktime filed in /var/log/faillog for this user.
+
+ACCOUNT OPTIONS
+
+    Account phase resets attempts counter if the user is not magic root. This
+    phase can be used optionally for services which don't call pam_setcred(3)
+    correctly or if the reset should be done regardless of the failure of the
+    account phase of other modules.
+
+    magic_root
+
+        If the module is invoked by a user with uid=0 the counter is not
+        incremented. The sysadmin should use this for user launched services,
+        like su, otherwise this argument should be omitted.
+
+    no_reset
+
+        Don't reset count on successful entry, only decrement.
+
+EXAMPLES
+
+Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/login to lock the account after too many
+failed logins. The number of allowed fails is specified by /var/log/faillog and
+needs to be set with pam_tally or faillog(8) before.
+
+auth     required       pam_securetty.so
+auth     required       pam_tally.so per_user
+auth     required       pam_env.so
+auth     required       pam_unix.so
+auth     required       pam_nologin.so
+account  required       pam_unix.so
+password required       pam_unix.so
+session  required       pam_limits.so
+session  required       pam_unix.so
+session  required       pam_lastlog.so nowtmp
+session  optional       pam_mail.so standard
+
+
+AUTHOR
+
+pam_tally was written by Tim Baverstock and Tomas Mraz.
+