shadow/man/faillog.5

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.TH "FAILLOG" 5 "" "" ""
.SH NAME
faillog \- Login failure logging file
.SH "DESCRIPTION"

.PP
\fI/var/log/faillog\fR 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 occured on; and the date the last login failure occured\&.

.PP
The structure of the file is:

.nf

struct	faillog {
	short   fail_cnt;
	short   fail_max;
	char    fail_line[12];
	time_t  fail_time;
};
.fi

.SH "FILES"

.TP
\fI/var/log/faillog\fR
login failure log
.SH "SEE ALSO"

.PP
\fBfaillog\fR(8) 

.SH "AUTHOR"

.PP
Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix\&.netcom\&.com)