Find Failed Login Attempts in Logs

by Ron on August 1, 2008

Looking for a log to show you failed login attempts to your Linux machine? Look in:

/var/log/btmp

You can access it by running:

/usr/bin/lastb

It’s similiar to the wtmp log of user login/logouts and the utmp log showing who is currently logged in.

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