FAILLOCK(8)							 Linux-PAM Manual						       FAILLOCK(8)

NAME

       faillock - Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure record files

SYNOPSIS

       faillock [--dir /path/to/tally-directory] [--user username] [--reset]

DESCRIPTION

       The pam_faillock.so module maintains a list of failed authentication attempts per user during a specified interval and locks the account in
       case there were more than deny consecutive failed authentications. It stores the failure records into per-user files in the tally
       directory.

       The faillock command is an application which can be used to examine and modify the contents of the the tally files. It can display the
       recent failed authentication attempts of the username or clear the tally files of all or individual usernames.

OPTIONS

       --dir /path/to/tally-directory
	   The directory where the user files with the failure records are kept. The default is /var/run/faillock.

       --user username
	   The user whose failure records should be displayed or cleared.

       --reset
	   Instead of displaying the user's failure records, clear them.

FILES

       /var/run/faillock/*
	   the files logging the authentication failures for users

SEE ALSO

       pam_faillock(8), pam(8)

AUTHOR

       faillock was written by Tomas Mraz.

Linux-PAM Manual						    06/17/2014							       FAILLOCK(8)