redhat man page for faillog

FAILLOG(5)							File Formats Manual							FAILLOG(5)

NAME
       faillog - Login failure logging file

DESCRIPTION
       faillog	maintains  a  count of login failures and the limits for each account.	The file is fixed length record, 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 dis-
       abled; the line the last login failure occured on; and the date the last login failure occured.

       The structure of the file is

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

FILES
       /var/log/faillog - login failure log

SEE ALSO
       faillog(8)

AUTHOR
       Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)

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