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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 20:46:53 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 20:46:53 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 1:4.13+dfsg1.upstream/1%4.13+dfsg1
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/faillog.5.xml b/man/faillog.5.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc05d9d --- /dev/null +++ b/man/faillog.5.xml @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!-- + SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 1989 - 1994, Julianne Frances Haugh + SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2007 - 2008, Nicolas François + SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause +--> +<!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 Configuration Files</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> + |