[ale] agetty login delay...

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Does anyone know where the sleep/delay function that is called when an 
> invalid password is specified is?
> 
> I'm looking at util-linux, and I'm trying to recompile agetty to not 
> have a ~5 second delay when I type my password in wrong.  I can't seem 
> to find the delay in the code though.  I timed the delay at 4.05 
> seconds; but I can't seem to find that in the code.
> 
> Does anyone have a line number or any idea where I should look to change 
> this?  I tried changing the SLEEP_EXIT_TIMEOUT to 0; but no adeu.
> 
> Any tips are greatly appreciated!

You shouldn't need to recompile, this is tuneable.  Do you have a 
/etc/login.defs?  Look for FAIL_DELAY (I think?)  What distro?

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Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995