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 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 disabled; the line the last login failure occurred on; and the date the last login failure occurred.

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)