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.\" Title: faillog
.\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://docbook.sf.net/el/author]
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
.\" Date: 02/12/2012
.\" Manual: File Formats and Conversions
.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.1.5
.\" Language: English
.\"
.TH "FAILLOG" "5" "02/12/2012" "shadow\-utils 4\&.1\&.5" "File Formats and Conversions"
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.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)
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