On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:52:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I have been using Debian for about 5 years now. As far as I remember, it > > always had the "n failure(s) since last login" message (if n was greater > > than zero). > > I have never seen that message. it works reliably on this particular up-to-date sid box, shows the proper number of failures. I think it must come from login, but I can't see what might cause to happen or not. > > > I never had to do anything to set it up, therefore I > > unfortunately don't know exactly how it works. My best guess is that it > > involves some PAM modules which parse /var/log/faillog and/or use the > > "faillog" command. Maybe this link helps to track it down: > > I always have a ~/.hushlogin. When I remove it I still never see > failures. I see this instead: > > Last login: Thu Jul 26 17:32:14 2007 from dementia.proulx.com > > If you create a .hushlogin file for you does your login failure > message at login go away? > > touch ~/.hushlogin > I see _nothing_ with a ~/.hushlogin and everything: motd, Last login, failures etc, without ~/.hushlogin > The sshd uses the presence of .hushlogin to silence the banner. In > the sshd man page: > > 1. If the login is on a tty, and no command has been specified, > prints last login time and /etc/motd (unless prevented in the > configuration file or by $HOME/.hushlogin; see the FILES section). > I do _not_ get this message over ssh, so it must come from that pair -- login or getty... A
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