faillog

FAILLOG(5)							   FAILLOG(5)



NAME
       faillog - Login failure logging file

DESCRIPTION
       faillog	maintains  a  count of login failures and the limits for each
       account.	 The file is fixed length record, indexed by  numerical	 UID.
       Each  record  contains the count of login failures since the last suc-
       cessful login; the maximum number of failures before  the  account  is
       disabled; the line the last login failure occured on; and the date the
       last login failure occured.

       The structure of the file is

	       struct faillog {
		       short   fail_cnt;
		       short   fail_max;
		       char    fail_line[12];
		       time_t  fail_time;
	       };


FILES
       /var/log/faillog - login failure log

SEE ALSO
       faillog(8)

AUTHOR
       Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)



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