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1 perry 1 FAILLOG
2 !!!FAILLOG
3 NAME
4 DESCRIPTION
5 FILES
6 SEE ALSO
7 AUTHOR
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9 !!NAME
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12 faillog - Login failure logging file
13 !!DESCRIPTION
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16 ''faillog'' maintains a count of login failures and the
17 limits for each account. The file is fixed length record,
18 indexed by numerical UID. Each record contains the count of
19 login failures since the last successful login; the maximum
20 number of failures before the account is disabled; the line
21 the last login failure occured on; and the date the last
22 login failure occured.
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25 The structure of the file is
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28 struct faillog { short fail_cnt; short fail_max; char
29 fail_line[[12]; time_t fail_time; };
30 !!FILES
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33 /var/log/faillog - login failure log
34 !!SEE ALSO
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37 faillog(8)
38 !!AUTHOR
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41 Julianne Frances Haugh (jfh@austin.ibm.com)
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