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Date: 2009dec25
OS: Linux

Q.  How/Where can I get info on user's unsuccessful attempts to login to my
Linux system?

A.  Check out the faillog command.

	man 5 faillog

	man 8 faillog

It is in package shadow-utils which is almost certainly already installed.
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