Re: Login-Warning

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Markus Lechner wrote:
  >I want the system to tell me when (and how many times) somebody tried to
  >login without proper
  >password.
  >
  >Is this possible in a simple way? How? Or do i need some Package?

The command to use is `lastb' from package sysvinit.

Relevant data is stored in /var/log/btmp, but only if that file already
exists.  If it doesn't exist, create it (as superuser) with the command
`touch /var/log/btmp'.

See `man last' for full details.

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Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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