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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 22:15:04 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Mission Control <root@indiemedia.com>
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Subject: Re: Log-in trys
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Mission Control wrote:

> Yes, but I don't want it to time out and still prompt for a login. I want
> it to close the connection entirely...is there any way around that?

It will time out after 10 tries, but you can change it by modifing the
default user class's `login-retries' capability in /etc/login.conf.  Or
rebuild login changing DEFAULT_RETRIES.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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