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65 lines
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.\" Title: faillog
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.\" Author: Julianne Frances Haugh
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.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/>
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.\" Date: 11/08/2022
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.\" Manual: File Formats and Configuration Files
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.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.13
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.\" Language: English
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.TH "FAILLOG" "5" "11/08/2022" "shadow\-utils 4\&.13" "File Formats and Configuratio"
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.SH "NAME"
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faillog \- login failure logging file
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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.PP
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/var/log/faillog
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maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account\&.
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.PP
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The file contains fixed length records, indexed by numerical UID\&. Each record contains the count of login failures since the last successful login; the maximum number of failures before the account is disabled; the line on which the last login failure occurred; the date of the last login failure; and the duration (in seconds) during which the account will be locked after a failure\&.
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.PP
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The structure of the file is:
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.sp
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.if n \{\
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.RS 4
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.nf
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struct faillog {
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short fail_cnt;
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short fail_max;
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char fail_line[12];
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time_t fail_time;
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long fail_locktime;
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};
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.fi
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.if n \{\
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.RE
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.SH "FILES"
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.PP
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/var/log/faillog
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.RS 4
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Failure logging file\&.
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.RE
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.PP
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\fBfaillog\fR(8)
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