Many security audits and checklists like the ones supplied by CIS or DISA STIG require locking user accounts after a number of unsuccessful login attempts. In Linux, this is usually achieved by using faillock / pam_faillock.so. Using PAM PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is the flexible framework in modern Linux to customize the authentication and login […]
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