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Authored by michaelo on Jun 19 2026, 5:24 PM.
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Introduce a new variable "security_status_loginfail_ignore" to filter unwanted
login failure messages from the daily security checks.

Co-authored-by: Michael Osipov <michaelo@FreeBSD.org>
PR: 295191
MFC after: 1 week

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The commit message says "are no" instead of "are not". You might consider something simpler because users can really filter out whatever they want.

Introduce a new variable "security_status_loginfail_ignore" to filter unwanted login failure messages from the daily security checks.

share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
1041–1043
  1. Rather than egrep(1), say extended regular expression, since egrep is deprecated in POSIX in favor of grep -E.
  2. Simplify the text. Users can really filter out whatever they want.

@jrm, reasonable points. Thank you!

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 20 2026, 8:24 PM