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I was looking into unlocking my login after too many incorrect password attempts. I found this post about it. Doing faillock -user $(whoami) --reset did indeed unlock the login. However, what exac...
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AdminBee
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2023-08-03T19:04:25Z (9 months ago)
Make title more concrete to the part of the output in question; shorten the output lines so that they fit without hor. scroll bars.
How do I interpret the output of faillock?
- What does the "Valid" column mean in the output of "faillock"?
- I was looking into unlocking my login after too many incorrect password attempts. I found [this post](https://superuser.com/a/1597163) about it. Doing `faillock -user $(whoami) --reset` did indeed unlock the login.
- However, what exactly is the output of `faillock` and how do I interpret it?
- When I ran it while I was locked out, the output was something like this:
- ```
- $ faillock
- my_username:
When Type Source Valid2023-08-02 14:39:43 TTY /dev/pts/1 V2023-08-02 14:39:44 TTY /dev/pts/1 V- ...
- ```
- When I run it after unlocking, there are no rows, only a header. I assume this is a list of failed login attempts, but then why is there a tick mark under `Valid`?
There is a [brief man page](https://man.archlinux.org/man/faillock.8) about this program, but it doesn't mention anything about this "valid" thing.
- I was looking into unlocking my login after too many incorrect password attempts. I found [this post](https://superuser.com/a/1597163) about it. Doing `faillock -user $(whoami) --reset` did indeed unlock the login.
- However, what exactly is the output of `faillock` and how do I interpret it?
- When I ran it while I was locked out, the output was something like this:
- ```
- $ faillock
- my_username:
- When Type Source Valid
- 2023-08-02 14:39:43 TTY /dev/pts/1 V
- 2023-08-02 14:39:44 TTY /dev/pts/1 V
- ...
- ```
- When I run it after unlocking, there are no rows, only a header. I assume this is a list of failed login attempts, but then why is there a tick mark under `Valid`?
- There is a [brief man page](https://man.archlinux.org/man/faillock.8) about this program, but it doesn't mention anything about this "valid" thing.
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matthewsnyder
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2023-08-02T20:56:00Z (9 months ago)
How do I interpret the output of faillock?
I was looking into unlocking my login after too many incorrect password attempts. I found [this post](https://superuser.com/a/1597163) about it. Doing `faillock -user $(whoami) --reset` did indeed unlock the login. However, what exactly is the output of `faillock` and how do I interpret it? When I ran it while I was locked out, the output was something like this: ``` $ faillock my_username: When Type Source Valid 2023-08-02 14:39:43 TTY /dev/pts/1 V 2023-08-02 14:39:44 TTY /dev/pts/1 V ... ``` When I run it after unlocking, there are no rows, only a header. I assume this is a list of failed login attempts, but then why is there a tick mark under `Valid`? There is a [brief man page](https://man.archlinux.org/man/faillock.8) about this program, but it doesn't mention anything about this "valid" thing.