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Anonymous
3 years ago

Limit on PAM authentication tries?

Currently it seems like I can try to authenticate with PAM to unlock 1Password as many times as I want. I'd like to be able to have fingerprint unlock for 1Password, without allowing unlimited tries,...
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AliH1P
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3 years ago

Hey @arip, I reached out to some of our developers to get clarification on this. This is typically handled by PAM - we ask PAM to authenticate and it returns a pass/fail. So ultimately, how it authenticates is up to how PAM is configured. You can find some additional details on PAM configurations here: https://linux.die.net/man/8/pam_tally

Let me know if this helps or if you have any questions.

Ali