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34 <refentrytitle>faillog</refentrytitle>
35 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
36 <refmiscinfo class="sectdesc"> File Formats and Conversions</refmiscinfo>
38 <refnamediv id='name'>
39 <refname>faillog</refname>
40 <refpurpose>login failure logging file</refpurpose>
43 <refsect1 id='description'>
44 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
46 <filename>/var/log/faillog</filename> maintains a count of login
47 failures and the limits for each account.
50 The file contains fixed length
51 records, indexed by numerical UID. Each record contains the count of
52 login failures since the last successful login; the maximum number of
53 failures before the account is disabled; the line on whiche the last login
54 failure occurred; the date of the last login failure;
55 and the duration (in seconds) during which the account will be locked after
59 <para>The structure of the file is:</para>
74 <term><filename>/var/log/faillog</filename></term>
76 <para>Failure logging file.</para>
82 <refsect1 id='see_also'>
83 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
86 <refentrytitle>faillog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>