FAILLOG(8) System Management Commands FAILLOG(8)NAMEfaillog - display faillog records or set login failure limits
SYNOPSISfaillog [options]
DESCRIPTIONfaillog formats the contents of the failure log from /var/log/faillog
database. It also can be used for maintains failure counters and
limits. Run faillog without arguments display only list of user faillog
records who have ever had a login failure.
OPTIONS
The options which apply to the faillog command are:
-a, --all
Display faillog records for all users.
-h, --help
Display help message and exit.
-l, --lock-time SEC
Lock account to SEC seconds after failed login.
-m, --maximum MAX
Set maximum number of login failures after the account is
disabled to MAX. Selecting MAX value of 0 has the effect of not
placing a limit on the number of failed logins. The maximum
failure count should always be 0 for root to prevent a denial of
services attack against the system.
-r, --reset
Reset the counters of login failures or one record if used with
the -u LOGIN option. Write access to /var/log/faillog is
required for this option.
-t, --time DAYS
Display faillog records more recent than DAYS. The -t flag
overrides the use of -u.
-u, --user LOGIN
Display faillog record or maintains failure counters and limits
(if used with -l, -m or -r options) only for user with LOGIN.
CAVEATSfaillog only prints out users with no successful login since the last
failure. To print out a user who has had a successful login since their
last failure, you must explicitly request the user with the -u flag, or
print out all users with the -a flag.
FILES
/var/log/faillog
failure logging file
SEE ALSOlogin(1), faillog(5).
System Management Commands 11/05/2005 FAILLOG(8)
