faillog 5 faillog Login failure logging file /var/log/faillog maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account. The file is fixed length record, 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 the last login failure occured on; and the date the last login failure occured. The structure of the file is: struct faillog { short fail_cnt; short fail_max; char fail_line[12]; time_t fail_time; }; /var/log/faillog login failure log faillog8 Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)