centos man page for faillock

Query: faillock

OS: centos

Section: 8

Format: Original Unix Latex Style Formatted with HTML and a Horizontal Scroll Bar

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)
Related Man Pages
pam_faillock(8) - centos
faillog(8) - debian
pam_tally2(8) - debian
faillog(8) - suse
pam_tally(8) - suse
Similar Topics in the Unix Linux Community
catching some errors
How to delete files with no records?
Sorting a list of filenames but keeping the path information.
Number of records in a file of a particular directory
Compare files to pull changed records only