FAILLOG(5)                                        File Formats and Conversions                                        FAILLOG(5)



NAME
       faillog - login failure logging file

DESCRIPTION
       /var/log/faillog maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account.

       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 whiche 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.

       The structure of the file is:

           struct    faillog {
                short   fail_cnt;
                short   fail_max;
                char    fail_line[12];
                time_t  fail_time;
                long    fail_locktime;
           };

FILES
       /var/log/faillog
           Failure logging file.

SEE ALSO
       faillog(8)



File Formats and Conversions                               07/24/2009                                                 FAILLOG(5)