1
0
Fork 0
shadow/man/man5/faillog.5
Daniel Baumann 09a180ea01
Adding upstream version 1:4.17.4.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
2025-06-22 05:06:56 +02:00

64 lines
2.1 KiB
Groff

'\" t
.\" Title: faillog
.\" Author: Julianne Frances Haugh
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/>
.\" Date: 03/19/2025
.\" Manual: File Formats and Configuration Files
.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.17.4
.\" Language: English
.\"
.TH "FAILLOG" "5" "03/19/2025" "shadow\-utils 4\&.17\&.4" "File Formats and Configuratio"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Define some portability stuff
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
.el .ds Aq '
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * set default formatting
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" disable hyphenation
.nh
.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
.ad l
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.SH "NAME"
faillog \- login failure logging file
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
/var/log/faillog
maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account\&.
.PP
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\&.
.PP
The structure of the file is:
.sp
.if n \{\
.RS 4
.\}
.nf
struct faillog {
short fail_cnt;
short fail_max;
char fail_line[12];
time_t fail_time;
long fail_locktime;
};
.fi
.if n \{\
.RE
.\}
.SH "FILES"
.PP
/var/log/faillog
.RS 4
Failure logging file\&.
.RE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBfaillog\fR(8)