What you want to do is run the following command to view the /etc/security/failedlogin file:
who /etc/security/failedlogin
It may run for a while if your log file is large. I'm not sure how to tell it to only process a specific number of lines. You can pipe it to tail to view the end if that is all you want to look at, but the process is still going to run, eating CPU cycles until it gets to the end of the file. Maybe someone knows how to run this more efficiently.
indiana_tas, this is great in fact but using tail brings to the terminal some coded info so I prefer as it is more simple to use who. Piped I could do this:
Hi,
I notice in my Sun Solaris 8 sparc workstation, if I failed my login in the 5th time, I will be closed the connection from the host.
I want to make 3 times. That is, if user fails to login with 3 attempts, he will be closed the connection.
How to do it? Of course I am the admin of the... (2 Replies)
I am wondering if solaris captures id's associated w/invalid login attempts?
when I try to login as "test1" several (3-5) times, I do not find any userID info under "/var/adm" files:
utmpx
wtmpx
messages
lastlog
Is there another location/log I should be checking?
Is it necessary for... (6 Replies)
Hi. I would like to be able to deny IP address for too many failed login attemps (either from ssh, sftp, ftp, etc). The system I wish this to work on is an AIX 5.1 system. I'm new to AIX but I'm a linux user. There is a program for linux called fail2ban which reads from the log files and see if... (1 Reply)
Does anyone have a good script / cron job that handles this?
I have looked in smit and see it is clearing this count with:
chsec -f /etc/security/lastlog -a "unsuccessful_login_count=0" -s '{userid}'
However when I looked around to find ways to automate this I have not found an easy... (0 Replies)
I'm stumped on an issue I'm having with RSA key based SSH logons.
I have 30 servers in a database cluster. They are all Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4.
I want to be able to run a command on all of them from any one of them using SSH.
I generated private and public keys on... (1 Reply)
Hi there,
In Solaris 8.
I have accidentally set the eeprom security-mode=command because I followed the CIS benchmark guideline. Initally, it was eeprom security-mode=none. I have tried to login with the correct password numerous time and it still say permission denied.
I have tried to login... (4 Replies)
The purpose of this thread is for everyone to follow the same methodology so we can create a future table, for the benefit of all, that shows how many failed login attempts (hacking) per day per server (and per minute) are happening.
This is not a thread on writing scripts or creating... (10 Replies)