Pam tally2

/sbin/pam_tally2 - The login counter (tallying) module included in libpam-modules-bin package.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/pam_tally2.8.html

Nov 09 06:54:37 SERVER sshd[484647]: pam_tally2(sshd:auth): user USERNAME (1003) tally 17, deny 5

pam_tally2 --user=USERNAME

pam_tally2 --user=USERNAME --reset

Related terms

• /etc/pam.d/password-auth

See also

• PAM, libpam_cracklib, pam_tally2, /etc/pam.d/, /etc/pam.d/sshd, pam_oath, pam_sss, /etc/pam.d/login, pam_unix, pam_krb5