2 articles tagged "pam track failed logins"

How to: Configure Linux to track and log failed login attempt recoreds
Under Linux you can use faillog command to display faillog records or to .set login failure limits. faillog formats the contents of the failure log from /var/log/faillog database / log file.
Linux How do I display failed login attempt?
/var/log/faillog is a log file for failed login attempts. This file maintains a count of login failures and the limits for each account. The file is fixed length record, indexed by numerical ID. Each record contains the count of login failures since the last successful login; the maximum number of failures before the account is [...]

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