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FAILLOG(5) FAILLOG(5)
NAME
faillog - login failure logging file
DESCRIPTION
/var/log/faillog 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.
The structure of the file is:
struct faillog {
short fail_cnt;
short fail_max;
char fail_line[12];
time_t fail_time;
long fail_locktime;
};
FILES
/var/log/faillog
Failure logging file.
SEE ALSO
faillog(8)
06/20/2006 FAILLOG(5)
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