Hello,

Moved to the Security forum.

You need to use different controls within your LDAP server. However you can use pam_tally.so and pam_cracklib.so to improve your local security for passwords..

One option is:

esxcfg-auth --usecrack=3 14 2 2 2 2

First entry is '3' retries for a password attempt.


Best regards,
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