{"id":3733,"date":"2022-12-20T17:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/faillock-man8\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:19:53","slug":"faillock-man8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/2022\/12\/20\/faillock-man8\/","title":{"rendered":"FAILLOCK (man8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\">FAILLOCK<\/h1>\n<p> <a href=\"#NAME\">NAME<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#SYNOPSIS\">SYNOPSIS<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#DESCRIPTION\">DESCRIPTION<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#OPTIONS\">OPTIONS<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#FILES\">FILES<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#SEE ALSO\">SEE ALSO<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#AUTHOR\">AUTHOR<\/a> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>NAME <a name=\"NAME\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">faillock \u2212 Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure record files<\/p>\n<h2>SYNOPSIS <a name=\"SYNOPSIS\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" rules=\"none\" frame=\"void\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">\n<td width=\"11%\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"89%\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em\"><b>faillock<\/b> [\u2212\u2212dir\u00a0<i>\/path\/to\/tally\u2212directory<\/i>] [\u2212\u2212user\u00a0<i>username<\/i>] [\u2212\u2212reset]<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>DESCRIPTION <a name=\"DESCRIPTION\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">The <i>pam_faillock.so<\/i> module maintains a list of failed authentication attempts per user during a specified interval and locks the account in case there were more than <i>deny<\/i> consecutive failed authentications. It stores the failure records into per\u2212user files in the tally directory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">The <b>faillock<\/b> command is an application which can be used to examine and modify the contents of the the tally files. It can display the recent failed authentication attempts of the <i>username<\/i> or clear the tally files of all or individual <i>usernames<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h2>OPTIONS <a name=\"OPTIONS\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>\u2212\u2212dir<\/b> <i>\/path\/to\/tally\u2212directory<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:17%;\">The directory where the user files with the failure records are kept. The default is \/var\/run\/faillock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>\u2212\u2212user<\/b> <i>username<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:17%;\">The user whose failure records should be displayed or cleared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>\u2212\u2212reset<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:17%;\">Instead of displaying the user&#8217;s failure records, clear them.<\/p>\n<h2>FILES <a name=\"FILES\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">\/var\/run\/faillock\/*<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:17%;\">the files logging the authentication failures for users<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO <a name=\"SEE ALSO\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>pam_faillock<\/b>(8), <b>pam<\/b>(8)<\/p>\n<h2>AUTHOR <a name=\"AUTHOR\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">faillock was written by Tomas Mraz.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  faillock \u2212 Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure record files <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,52,841,4],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-administracion-del-sistema","tag-5","tag-administracion","tag-faillock","tag-man8"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}