FAILLOCK - Online Linux Manual PageSection : 8
Updated : 09/03/2021
Source : Linux-PAM Manual
Note : Linux−PAM Manual

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NAMEfaillock − Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure record files

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SYNOPSISfaillock [−−dir /path/to/tally−directory] [−−user username] [−−reset]

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DESCRIPTIONThe pam_faillock​.so module maintains a list of failed authentication attempts per user during a specified interval and locks the account in case there were more than deny consecutive failed authentications​. It stores the failure records into per−user files in the tally directory​. The faillock command is an application which can be used to examine and modify the contents of the tally files​. It can display the recent failed authentication attempts of the username or clear the tally files of all or individual usernames​.

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OPTIONS−−dir /path/to/tally−directory The directory where the user files with the failure records are kept​. The default is /var/run/faillock​. −−user username The user whose failure records should be displayed or cleared​. −−reset Instead of displaying the user's failure records, clear them​.

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FILES/var/run/faillock/* the files logging the authentication failures for users

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SEE ALSOpam_faillock(8), pam(8)

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AUTHORfaillock was written by Tomas Mraz​. 0

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