I remember seeing that message years ago when logging in at an ordinary console, but not any time recently and never on my gentoo machines.
But I just saw that message again yesterday when logging into a Fedora20 virtual machine running the gdm (gnome) display manager. Is there a way to display that 'failed logins' message without using gdm/kdm/xdm? Also, is there a way to display the same 'failed logins' message when logging in with ssh? Thanks for any clues.