topic AUTH_MAXTRIES in Operating System - HP-UX

AUTH_MAXTRIES

Juliana Sousa — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:10:17 GMT

I have a Non-Trusted HP-UX System:

# uname -a
HP-UX erelas B.11.23 U ia64

I wanted to lock users after some failed login attempts

I have made a entry in /etc/default/security as follows

AUTH_MAXTRIES=3

but when i tried to test this the account doesn't get locked out.

Is it the correct way to configure this?

What do I have to do?

Thank you,
Juliana

Re: AUTH_MAXTRIES

Victor Fridyev — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:52:36 GMT

Hi,

In addition to this setup you also have to configure pam unit as well.

Read
man 4 security

There is an explanation

HTH

Re: AUTH_MAXTRIES

Juliana Sousa — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:48:36 GMT

Which pam unit?

Do I have to install the TrustedMigration product?

Re: AUTH_MAXTRIES

Victor Fridyev — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:12:45 GMT

PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module

It should be installed by default in not trusted system. Look at /etc/pam.conf
swlist -l product | grep PAM
PAM-Kerberos C.01.23 PAM-Kerberos Version 1.23
PAM-NTLM A.01.09.02 HP NTLM Pluggable Authentication Module