LDAP Linux user account lock messages are not displayed

Fixed merge conflicts
Removed Debian from the updates
Removed CentOS update
Modified the note in "Local LDAP Linux User Accounts"

Signed-off-by: Juanita-Balaraj <juanita.balaraj@windriver.com>
Change-Id: I39ee05afa87c777266df739daec323a6a4e59d06
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Juanita-Balaraj 2022-12-01 12:34:58 -05:00
parent 2415b07806
commit 6fe81edbcd

@ -50,18 +50,30 @@ Local |LDAP| user accounts share the following set of attributes:
.. note::
This delay is 3 seconds.
You are alerted on the 6th and subsequent attempts:
``Account locked due to 6 failed logins``
and an error message is displayed on subsequent attempts:
``Maximum number of tries exceeded (5)``
When you login to the console you are alerted on the 6th, and
subsequent attempts:
To clarify, 5 mins after the account is locked, the failed attempts will
be reset and failed attempts re-counted.
``The account is locked due to 5 failed logins (2 minutes left to unlock)``
- All authentication attempts are recorded on the file ``/var/log/auth.log``
When you login remotely using SSH, you have 3 attempts to try
and login before an error ``Permission denied (publickey,password)``
is displayed, during an SSH login session. You can continue to login
by starting a new login session, until the user is locked
out after 5 consecutive failed attempts. For security reasons,
there is no reason or error displayed to the user.
5 mins after the account is locked, the failed attempts will be
reset and failed attempts re-counted.
- All authentication attempts are recorded on the file /var/log/auth.log
of the target host.
- Home directories and passwords are backed up and restored by the system