FAILLOG - Online Linux Manual PageSection : 5
Updated : 02/07/2020
Source : shadow−utils 4​.8​.1
Note : File Formats and Conversions

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NAMEfaillog − login failure logging file

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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 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​. 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; };

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FILES/var/log/faillog Failure logging file​.

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SEE ALSOfaillog(8) 0

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