By robertlam18
Hi I want to lockout the root account for several minutes for wrong password. I think PAM package is already installed on Digital Ocean droplet. I am told to add this
auth required pam_tally2.so deny=3 onerr=fail lock_time=1800
auth required pam_env.so
to nano /etc/pam.d/system-auth
However my droplet don’t have system-auth
when I run /sbin/pam_tally2 I get the below even though I can see the file
pam_tally2: No such file or directory
Please me know how to setup the account lockout function. Before I download and recompile PAM and risk messing up my server I wonder if there is a tested method on solving this. cheers.
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Are you trying to follow a guide for CentOS on Ubuntu? On an Ubuntu system you would use:
nano /etc/pam.d/common-auth
Running pam_tally2 will give you the error:
pam_tally2: No such file or directory
But if you pass it arguments it will show the appropriate output. For instance:
# pam_tally2 --user=root
Login Failures Latest failure From
root 0
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