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<?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>