Retry up to 3 times on password authentication failure #123
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Resolves #82
#102 was closed a few days ago, so I decided to take my shot. Took a look at the comments you left, and based my changes on that.
For the pam loop, I took a look and retrying authentication with a loop seems like an expected thing to do. From https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=p-pam-authenticate-subroutine: