Hi,

Our system is based on RH4 and is using pam_tally and faillog to record failed attempts and to lock users out after 5 attempts.

We have a requirement to provide a normal (non-root) user logging onto our system, with information regarding the number of failed logon attempts made on their account before the current successful logon (similar to the functionality provided by HP Protect Tools on Windows).

My first idea was to add 'faillog -u $USER' to the bashrc, however by the time the bashrc is run - the user has been successfully authenticated and the faillog has been reset back to zero.

I have been googling for several hours and have failed to find any ways to provide this functionality, can anyone suggest some ideas?

I guess sshd's ForceCommand isn't working?
Then only idea i have is to run a crontab script, that will collect and dump this table in some file every x minutes and on-login it will be read with grep for $USER.

This is for local logon, not through ssh.

Yes, the cron option was the only one I had come up with so far.

Try this in your /etc/login.defs file:

Okay, that now displays the time that the user last logged in (actually that is handy as well - so thanks for that) but does not detail the number of failed login attempts.

I have tried adding LASTLOG_ENAB yes as well but that made no additional difference.

Running man login.defs does not list either the FAILLOG_ENAB nor LASTLOG_ENAB options, so perhaps the version of RH4 we are using does not support these options?