Hello,
It seems that Manjaro by default locks user authentication for 10 minutes if a correct password failed to be entered three times in a row. This is actually very annoying and I would like to disable it, but I’m not sure how. Can anyone help?
… how about choosing a password that you can reproduce reliably? 
Actually, what happened is that I entered my password several times using the wrong language/keyboard layout without noticing! It happens to the best of us. I usually have no problems entering my current password otherwise, but I’d still like to disable it or at least tweak the number of maximum retries.
It does.
But that is no reason to wanting to alter security levels. Not to me.
Take a look at this: pam_faillock(8) — Arch manual pages
FYI: There is also faillock --reset. If you are still logged in.
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In addition to the above: Lock out user after three failed login attempts
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Thank you all for the clues, I modified /etc/security/faillock.conf and enabled 10 attempts instead of 3 
I understand your point, but I feel that 3 attempts is a bit too aggressive. Maybe disabling it entirely isn’t the right solution, but I think it’s reasonable to allow more attempts like 10.
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