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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man/pam_fail_delay.3.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/pam_fail_delay.3.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/pam_fail_delay.3.xml b/doc/man/pam_fail_delay.3.xml index d886e9e0..53c1f89e 100644 --- a/doc/man/pam_fail_delay.3.xml +++ b/doc/man/pam_fail_delay.3.xml @@ -93,8 +93,15 @@ void (*delay_fn)(int retval, unsigned usec_delay, void *appdata_ptr); <citerefentry> <refentrytitle>pam_set_item</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum> </citerefentry>. - Note, if PAM_FAIL_DELAY item is unset (or set to NULL), then no delay - will be performed. + </para> + <para> + Note that the PAM_FAIL_DELAY item is set to NULL by default. This + indicates that PAM should perform a random delay as described + above when authentication fails and a delay has been suggested. + If an application does not want the PAM library to perform any + delay on authentication failure, then the application must define + a custom delay function that executes no statements and set + the PAM_FAIL_DELAY item to point to this function. </para> </refsect1> |