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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 1989 - 1994, Julianne Frances Haugh
SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2007 - 2008, Nicolas François
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
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<refentry id='faillog.5'>
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<refentryinfo>
<author>
<firstname>Julianne Frances</firstname>
<surname>Haugh</surname>
<contrib>Creation, 1989</contrib>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Thomas</firstname>
<surname>Kłoczko</surname>
<email>kloczek@pld.org.pl</email>
<contrib>shadow-utils maintainer, 2000 - 2007</contrib>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Nicolas</firstname>
<surname>François</surname>
<email>nicolas.francois@centraliens.net</email>
<contrib>shadow-utils maintainer, 2007 - now</contrib>
</author>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>faillog</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="sectdesc"> File Formats and Configuration Files</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="source">shadow-utils</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="version">&SHADOW_UTILS_VERSION;</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.
</para>
<para>
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.
</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>