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authorbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2006-04-19 17:46:27 +0000
committerbrueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>2006-04-19 17:46:27 +0000
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Document how the backoff delay is calculated.
Submitted by: markus MFC after: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libutil/login.conf.55
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libutil/login.conf.5 b/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
index b71ef99..01f9a9f 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
+++ b/lib/libutil/login.conf.5
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd August 6, 2004
+.Dd April 19, 2006
.Dt LOGIN.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -243,6 +243,9 @@ in the class may not access.
.It "login-backoff number 3 The number of login attempts
allowed before the backoff delay is inserted after each subsequent
attempt.
+The backoff delay is the number of tries above
+.Em login-backoff
+multiplied by 5 seconds.
.It "login-retries number 10 The number of login attempts
allowed before the login fails.
.It "passwd_format string md5 The encryption format that new or
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