debian man page for faillog

FAILLOG(5)						   File Formats and Conversions 						FAILLOG(5)

NAME
       faillog - login failure logging file

DESCRIPTION
       /var/log/faillog maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account.

       The file contains fixed length records, indexed by numerical UID. Each record contains the count of login failures since the last
       successful login; the maximum number of failures before the account is disabled; the line on which the last login failure occurred; the
       date of the last login failure; and the duration (in seconds) during which the account will be locked after a failure.

       The structure of the file is:

	   struct    faillog {
		short	fail_cnt;
		short	fail_max;
		char	fail_line[12];
		time_t	fail_time;
		long	fail_locktime;
	   };

FILES
       /var/log/faillog
	   Failure logging file.

SEE ALSO
       faillog(8)

shadow-utils 4.1.5.1						    05/25/2012								FAILLOG(5)