Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures

To Change the Allowed Number of Password Tries

  1. Assume the Security Administrator role and go to an ADMIN_LOW workspace.

  2. Use the Admin Editor action to open the /etc/default/login file for editing.

    See "To Edit a Local File", if needed.

  3. Search for the string #RETRIES.


    # RETRIES sets the number of consecutive authentication failures
    # allowed before the user is locked out.
    #
    #RETRIES=5
  4. Change the RETRIES value to the desired value and remove the # sign.

  5. Save and close the file.