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**Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:25 pm

AIX failed login attempts, check failed login attempts on AIX

How to check for failed login attempts on AIX
AIX 5.x logs failed login attempts to /etc/security/failedlogin file (don't try to head/grep/tail it, it's data or International Language text)

Code:

$ file /etc/security/failedlogin
/etc/security/failedlogin: data or International Language text

To be able to read this file and list failed login attempts, use who -a /etc/security/failedlogin command:

$ who -a /etc/security/failedlogin
root - ssh Jan 21 09:43 ...

**Posted:** Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:12 am

Here are 3 little tips for using find under AIX to search files by specific i-node attribute, without descending into subdirectories (maxdepth 1).

1) Install find from AIX Linux toolbox

2)

Code:

find . ! -name . -prune -type f

3)

Code:

find * -prune -type f

In this case, the metacharacter star will instruct find to operate in the current directory. So you can either cd to desired dir, or

Code:

find /path/to/dest/dir/* -prune -type f

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