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FAILLOCK(8) Linux-PAM Manual FAILLOCK(8)

NAME
faillock - Tool for displaying and modifying the authentication failure record files

SYNOPSIS
faillock [--dir /path/to/tally-directory] [--user username] [--reset]

DESCRIPTION
The 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.

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.

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