<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<refentry id='faillog.5'>
  <!-- $Id$ -->
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>faillog</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
    <refmiscinfo class="sectdesc"> File Formats and Conversions</refmiscinfo>
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv id='name'>
    <refname>faillog</refname>
    <refpurpose>login failure logging file</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsect1 id='description'>
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para><filename>/var/log/faillog</filename> 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 successful login; the maximum number of
      failures before the account is disabled; the line the last login
      failure occurred on; the date the last login failure occurred;
      and the time in seconds how long the account will be locked after
      a failure.
    </para>

    <para>The structure of the file is:</para>
      <programlisting>
struct	faillog {
	short   fail_cnt;
	short   fail_max;
	char    fail_line[12];
	time_t  fail_time;
	long    fail_locktime;
};</programlisting>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='files'>
    <title>FILES</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><filename>/var/log/faillog</filename></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>Failure logging file.</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id='see_also'>
    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
    <para>
      <citerefentry>
	<refentrytitle>faillog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
      </citerefentry>
    </para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>

