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diff --git a/man/man5/faillog.5 b/man/man5/faillog.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1264619 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/faillog.5 @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: faillog +.\" Author: Julianne Frances Haugh +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 01/23/2020 +.\" Manual: File Formats and Conversions +.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.8.1 +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "FAILLOG" "5" "01/23/2020" "shadow\-utils 4\&.8\&.1" "File Formats and Conversions" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * 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) |