Extended Login Requirements

From: Chuck (chuck.holbrook_at_lmco.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: 20 Feb 2004 13:47:03 -0800

Hello all,

I am trying to find out if there is any way to enable additional login
information to be displayed to a user upon login. Specifically I need
to meet the following hard requirements set by the government for our
project:
                Upon successful User logon at a workstation, the System shall
display the [date and time of the] last successful and unsuccessful
login attempts for this account, and the total number of unsuccessful
login attempts for this account since the last successful login.

Meeting these requirements may change whether we even use Solaris, but
if we do, we will be using the latest version of it and I am having
trouble finding any hard answers in the documentation. Solaris seems
to log some things to /var/adm/loginlog, but I'm not to clear on when
it does and for exactly what. I know that it is possible to have the
system display the last successful login time, but I haven't seen
anything in the documentation that says solaris even keeps track of
unsuccessful login attempts over time. This project is very SLOC
sensitive so coding, even simple additional script coding is probably
out of the question.

I would be very appreciative if someone could even tell me just a hard
affirmitive YES or NO that solaris definitily does or does not support
this functionality out of the box.

Additionally the names of any 3rd party tools or methods to call in a
script that may meet the login requirements would be appreciated.

TIA,

Chuck

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