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Greg Roberts wrote in message <347A4BEC.9E63FE37@ee.uwa.edu.au>...
>Hi all. I recently posted a question about this problem around two weeks
>ago, and it was suggested to me that I should install the 'mgetty'
>package. I've done that and it works, but login still disconnect's users
>if their first login was incorrect. This is unacceptable and has to be
>changed. I believe that this could be a problem with login, rather than
>with mgetty, since mgetty passes control to login after it picks up the
>incomming call. So if anyone knows why this is happening and how to fix
>it, please mail me! The machine is a 486 running RedHat 4.1. It has
>4x14.4K modems (Dynalink 1414VQE), which are connected via two serial
>boards. No special serial config has been used.
>

I'm running Debian and in me /etc dir I have a file called login.defs, it
contains the following lines.

#
# Max number of login retries if password is bad
#
LOGIN_RETRIES           5

As well as other interesting stuff...

Hope this helps..

John