Changeset e3e2a37 for BOOK/final-system/common

Timestamp:

Mar 4, 2016, 12:55:55 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

Chris Staub <chris@…>

Branches:

master, systemd

Children:

86839d7

Parents:

8d55018

Message:

Create /var/log/faillog

File:

• BOOK/final-system/common/shadow.xml (modified) (1 diff)

BOOK/final-system/common/shadow.xml

@@ -99 +99 @@
 
     <para os="v">The <command>login</command> program will write to
-    <filename>/var/log/lastlog</filename>, if it exists, to record the date and
-    time of the latest successful login for each user. This log file is not
-    created automatically if it does not already exist, so we will
-    create it now and give it appropriate ownership and permissions:</para>
-
-<screen os="w"><userinput>touch /var/log/lastlog
-chgrp -v utmp /var/log/lastlog
-chmod -v 664 /var/log/lastlog</userinput></screen>
+    <filename>/var/log/faillog</filename>, to record failed login attempts, and
+    <filename>/var/log/lastlog</filename>, to record the date and
+    time of the latest successful login for each user. These log files are not
+    created automatically if they do not already exist, so we will
+    create them now and give them appropriate ownership and permissions:</para>
+
+<screen os="w"><userinput>touch /var/log/{fail,last}log
+chgrp -v utmp /var/log/{fail,last}log
+chmod -v 664 /var/log/{fail,last}log</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>