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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+ Copyright (c) 1989 - 1994, Julianne Frances Haugh
+ Copyright (c) 2007 - 2008, Nicolas François
+ All rights reserved.
+
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+-->
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!-- SHADOW-CONFIG-HERE -->
+]>
+<refentry id='faillog.5'>
+ <!-- $Id$ -->
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Julianne Frances</firstname>
+ <surname>Haugh</surname>
+ <contrib>Creation, 1989</contrib>
+ </author>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Thomas</firstname>
+ <surname>Kłoczko</surname>
+ <email>kloczek@pld.org.pl</email>
+ <contrib>shadow-utils maintainer, 2000 - 2007</contrib>
+ </author>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Nicolas</firstname>
+ <surname>François</surname>
+ <email>nicolas.francois@centraliens.net</email>
+ <contrib>shadow-utils maintainer, 2007 - now</contrib>
+ </author>
+ </refentryinfo>
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>faillog</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class="sectdesc"> File Formats and Conversions</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="source">shadow-utils</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="version">&SHADOW_UTILS_VERSION;</refmiscinfo>
+ </refmeta>
+ <refnamediv id='name'>
+ <refname>faillog</refname>
+ <refpurpose>login failure logging file</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsect1 id='description'>
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+ <para>
+ <filename>/var/log/faillog</filename> maintains a count of login
+ failures and the limits for each account.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ 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.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The structure of the file is:</para>
+ <programlisting>
+struct faillog {
+ short fail_cnt;
+ short fail_max;
+ char fail_line[12];
+ time_t fail_time;
+ long fail_locktime;
+};</programlisting>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id='files'>
+ <title>FILES</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>/var/log/faillog</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Failure logging file.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id='see_also'>
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>faillog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+</refentry>
+