[Whonix-devel] xscreensaver with pam_tally2

Mon Sep 16 15:02:00 CEST 2019

Hi,

having exactly the same issue.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/983183/how-lock-the-unlock-screen-after-wrong-password-attempts

Looks like xscreensaver and pam_tally2 (i.e. lock login after X failed
attempts to prevent password bruteforceing) are incompatible. That might
be since xscreensaver runs as user but pam requires root to read/write
/var/log/tallylog.

Is this an issue with xscreensaver, PAM or pam_tally2?

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from your reply.

Kind regards,
Patrick