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NAME

6       faillog - login failure logging file
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DESCRIPTION

9       /var/log/faillog maintains a count of login failures and the limits for
10       each account.
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12       The file contains fixed length records, indexed by numerical UID. Each
13       record contains the count of login failures since the last successful
14       login; the maximum number of failures before the account is disabled;
15       the line on whiche the last login failure occurred; the date of the
16       last login failure; and the duration (in seconds) during which the
17       account will be locked after a failure.
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19       The structure of the file is:
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21           struct    faillog {
22                short   fail_cnt;
23                short   fail_max;
24                char    fail_line[12];
25                time_t  fail_time;
26                long    fail_locktime;
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FILES

30       /var/log/faillog
31           Failure logging file.
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SEE ALSO

34       faillog(8)
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