Re: Incorrect behavior for multiple tries of login

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On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Dan Nicholson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> login has slightly incorrect behavior when a user tries to login
> repeatedly when using PAM. If the user enters the correct password on
> the final attempt when failcount == retries, login fails with the
> message "Maximum number of tries exceeded". The problem is that login
> doesn't test for PAM_SUCCESS when testing failcount >= retries.
> Attached is a patch to fix this problem.
>
> This was tested against shadow-4.0.15. I haven't tested against 4.0.16
> or CVS HEAD, but looking at the source, it doesn't seem to be
> different.

Now I have no time for full verify above so I'll look ok this patch after 
release 4.0.17.

> Also, would it be a problem to add the address in the Cc: field to a
> whitelist? He brought this issue to my attention and created the
> patch. He says that he tried to subscribe to your list but his mail
> server is blacklisted.

Done.

kloczek
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