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authorKarel Zak2011-10-06 00:30:45 +0200
committerKarel Zak2011-10-26 23:17:17 +0200
commitcea8ec53de95a08d2503706f40d8dfafc14a15e8 (patch)
treefc0956d004dc14adbd1f625fa73f79f2b9990330 /login-utils/login.1
parentlogin: use DEFAULT_HOME from login.defs (diff)
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login: use LOG_UNKFAIL_ENAB from login.defs, improve logging
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'login-utils/login.1')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/login-utils/login.1 b/login-utils/login.1
index ca7c4b3a4..948177c81 100644
--- a/login-utils/login.1
+++ b/login-utils/login.1
@@ -182,7 +182,14 @@ Indicate if login is allowed if we can\'t cd to the home directory. If set to
\fIyes\fR, the user will login in the root (/) directory if it is not possible
to cd to her home directory. The default value is 'yes'.
.RE
-
+.PP
+\fBLOG_UNKFAIL_ENAB\fR (boolean)
+.RS 4
+Enable display of unknown usernames when login failures are recorded\&.
+.sp
+Note that logging unknown usernames may be a security issue if an user enter
+her password instead of her login name.
+.RE
.SH FILES
.nf
.I /var/run/utmp