In the past year, I have quite often had to unblock a whole business center where they apparently keep using wrong email passwords while setting up new mailboxes. The world would be a better place if they just always used the correct settings and passwords, but I guess that's not realistic!
What I want to do now, is be a bit more lenient in general (like 15 failures or so), but block faster for root login attempts. I am the only person that would ever have to login on root, so I'd be comfortable even with a setting of 3 or 2 for the root account. (I don't have a static IP, so I can't just whitelist only my own IP to login on root)
Is there any way to do that? A change in a script or configuration file somewhere? I'm fine with hardcoding the number for the root account, I just don't know where to start.
What I want to do now, is be a bit more lenient in general (like 15 failures or so), but block faster for root login attempts. I am the only person that would ever have to login on root, so I'd be comfortable even with a setting of 3 or 2 for the root account. (I don't have a static IP, so I can't just whitelist only my own IP to login on root)
Is there any way to do that? A change in a script or configuration file somewhere? I'm fine with hardcoding the number for the root account, I just don't know where to start.