faillock

Category: Security & Hardening

faillock

Show failed login attempt tallies

Prints the current failure counters per user kept by pam_faillock, the PAM module that locks accounts after repeated bad passwords. A user in the denied column has hit the threshold. Related: passwd -l alice to lock an account manually.
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