Has anyone ever worked with a solution for this for SUSE 9.x? a pam module perhaps? an LDAP based solution? At this point we're looking for any solution - commercial or open source.

Here[1] is an extensive lists of pam_modules. Look at chapter "Really using PAM". What you are looking for seems to be pam_tally[2]. [1] http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1389 [2] http://www.baverstock.org.uk/tim/pam/ Hope that helps. the polarizer http://www.codixx.de/polarizer.html