99 lines
1.8 KiB
HTML
99 lines
1.8 KiB
HTML
|
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
|
|
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Man page of FAILLOG</TITLE>
|
|
</HEAD><BODY>
|
|
<H1>FAILLOG</H1>
|
|
Section: File Formats and Conversions (5)<BR>Updated: 05/28/2020<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
|
|
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html">Return to Main Contents</A><HR>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<A NAME="lbAB"> </A>
|
|
<H2>NAME</H2>
|
|
|
|
faillog - login failure logging file
|
|
<A NAME="lbAC"> </A>
|
|
<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
|
|
/var/log/faillog
|
|
maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account.
|
|
<P>
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
<P>
|
|
|
|
The structure of the file is:
|
|
<P>
|
|
<DL COMPACT><DT id="1"><DD>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<PRE>
|
|
struct faillog {
|
|
short fail_cnt;
|
|
short fail_max;
|
|
char fail_line[12];
|
|
time_t fail_time;
|
|
long fail_locktime;
|
|
};
|
|
</PRE>
|
|
|
|
</DL>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<A NAME="lbAD"> </A>
|
|
<H2>FILES</H2>
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
|
|
/var/log/faillog
|
|
<DL COMPACT><DT id="2"><DD>
|
|
Failure logging file.
|
|
</DL>
|
|
|
|
<A NAME="lbAE"> </A>
|
|
<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
|
|
|
|
<P>
|
|
|
|
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+faillog">faillog</A></B>(8)
|
|
<P>
|
|
|
|
<HR>
|
|
<A NAME="index"> </A><H2>Index</H2>
|
|
<DL>
|
|
<DT id="3"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
|
|
<DT id="4"><A HREF="#lbAC">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
|
|
<DT id="5"><A HREF="#lbAD">FILES</A><DD>
|
|
<DT id="6"><A HREF="#lbAE">SEE ALSO</A><DD>
|
|
</DL>
|
|
<HR>
|
|
This document was created by
|
|
<A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html">man2html</A>,
|
|
using the manual pages.<BR>
|
|
Time: 00:06:03 GMT, March 31, 2021
|
|
</BODY>
|
|
</HTML>
|