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.\" Copyright 1989 - 1994, Julianne Frances Haugh
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.\" $Id: faillog.5,v 1.5 2000/08/26 18:27:17 marekm Exp $
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.\"
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.TH FAILLOG 5
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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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.I faillog
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maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account.
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The file is fixed length record, indexed by numerical UID.
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Each record contains the count of login failures since the last
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successful login;
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the maximum number of failures before the account is disabled;
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the line the last login failure occured on;
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and the date the last login failure occured.
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.PP
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The structure of the file is
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.DS
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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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};
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.DE
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.SH FILES
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/var/log/faillog \- login failure log
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR faillog (8)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Julianne Frances Haugh (jfh@austin.ibm.com)
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