[sllug-members]: bad password delays

[J. Roger Smith]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 14:57, Ian Robertson wrote:
> I use Xscreensaver to lock my screen.  Frequently, when coming back,
> I'm in a hurry to type in my password, and hence mistype it.  This
> wouldn't be so bad, except that Xscreensaver takes 5 seconds before
> it rejects the password and lets me try again.  I suspect this is due
> to a pam setting, but I've been unable to figure out how to bump it
> down to say, 1 second.  Does anyone have any thoughts on how to
> attack this.  This is on a Suse 10.0 box.

I believe it is called Mavis Beacon.

:-p


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J. Roger Smith <jrsmth at asu.edu>