08-15-2008
You got some users that you can login with, you said.
So take your favourite editor and try to just yank & paste this line of that working user in /etc/passwd and edit the username and uid of the copied line to some fantasy value.
Set the password for this "new" user and try to connect.
You can just delete this line just when you made your test so nothing to worry about.
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FAILLOG(8) FAILLOG(8)
NAME
faillog - display faillog records or set login failure limits
SYNOPSIS
faillog [options]
DESCRIPTION
faillog 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 accout to SEC seconds after failed login.
-m, --maximum MAX
Set maiximum 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 recor if used with -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.
CAVEATS
faillog 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 ALSO
login(1), faillog(5)
AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)
08/03/2005 FAILLOG(8)