# Increase lockout limit to 10 and decrease timeout to 2 minutes sudo sed -i 's|^\(auth\s\+required\s\+pam_faillock.so\)\s\+preauth.*$|\1 preauth silent deny=10 unlock_time=120|' "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" sudo sed -i 's|^\(auth\s\+\[default=die\]\s\+pam_faillock.so\)\s\+authfail.*$|\1 authfail deny=10 unlock_time=120|' "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" # Ensure lockout limit is reset on restart sudo sed -i '/pam_faillock\.so preauth/d' /etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin sudo sed -i '/auth.*pam_permit\.so/a auth required pam_faillock.so authsucc' /etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin