[ale] agetty login delay...

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

I believe that is a PAM function

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 20:35, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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?