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. > 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 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). But I never see anything about failures, just the motd and the last login time. So I don't think this is it. I am very curious as to what outputs for you the faillog! Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]