Bug#427716: gdm: RetryDelay has no effect

[Josh Triplett]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:39:11PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Jun  6, 2007 at 23:19:24 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 
> > Le mercredi 06 juin 2007 à 13:06 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> > > From looking at the code in GDM, it doesn't seem to call pam_fail_delay
> > > itself; that code seems disabled.  Instead, it has its own sleep calls.
> > > I didn't realize that pam_unix calls pam_fail_delay itself.
> > > 
> > > It looks like I can make this delay go away for gdm by putting "nodelay" on
> > > the pam_unix line in /etc/pam.d/gdm (which will require replacing the include
> > > of common-auth with its contents).  However, I don't see any way to reduce the
> > > delay without turning it off completely.
> > 
> > Maybe you can use "nodelay" for the PAM configuration and then add a
> > RetryDelay in GDM.
> > 
> Josh, did this suggestion work for you?

If I recall correctly, no, it didn't; RetryDelay in gdm never had any
effect at all.

- Josh Triplett