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NAME

6       faillock - Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure
7       record files
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SYNOPSIS

10       faillock [--dir /path/to/tally-directory] [--user username] [--reset]
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DESCRIPTION

13       The pam_faillock.so module maintains a list of failed authentication
14       attempts per user during a specified interval and locks the account in
15       case there were more than deny consecutive failed authentications. It
16       stores the failure records into per-user files in the tally directory.
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18       The faillock command is an application which can be used to examine and
19       modify the contents of the tally files. It can display the recent
20       failed authentication attempts of the username or clear the tally files
21       of all or individual usernames.
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OPTIONS

24       --dir /path/to/tally-directory
25           The directory where the user files with the failure records are
26           kept. The default is /var/run/faillock.
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29           The user whose failure records should be displayed or cleared.
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32           Instead of displaying the user's failure records, clear them.
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FILES

35       /var/run/faillock/*
36           the files logging the authentication failures for users
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SEE ALSO

39       pam_faillock(8), pam(8)
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AUTHOR

42       faillock was written by Tomas Mraz.
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