I would like to create users and the users account should be locked after 3 log

I would like to create users and the users account should be
locked after 3 login attempts. How to create ? And where
these locked information has been stored.
Environment : NIS
and if LDAP also

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I would like to create users and the users account should be locked after 3 login attempts. How to ..

Answer / akash

on Solaris 10
in /etc/default/login

SYSLOG_FAILED_LOGINS=5

set this variable , it mean take 5 times to wrong passwd and
after that user locked by wrong passwd.

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I would like to create users and the users account should be locked after 3 login attempts. How to ..

Answer / anurag dhingra

To create a new user :

useradd -u uid -g gid -G{Gid1, Gid2,...} -d home dir -m -s shell -c "comment field" -l loginname

For user account should be locked after 3 login attempts:

2 Files should be configured like this

file1 : /etc/security/policy.conf
parameter : LOCK_AFTER_RETRIES=YES

file2 : /etc/default/login
parameter: RETRIES=3 (Default value=5)

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I would like to create users and the users account should be locked after 3 login attempts. How to ..

Answer / saravanan

the locked info is stored in /etc/shadow .. file
login attempt is stored in /var/adm/loginlog...
the admin set to new password for user....
#passwd username

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I would like to create users and the users account should be locked after 3 login attempts. How to ..

Answer / tapas jana

Edit the RETRIES parameter in the /etc/default/login file.
By default it is set as 3.

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