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)


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 ...

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

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