<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- Copyright (c) 1989 - 1994, Julianne Frances Haugh Copyright (c) 2007 - 2008, Nicolas François All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. The name of the copyright holders or contributors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. --> <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>