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5 and above login failures

robK123
Explorer

I have managed to create a search that finds users that have failed to login within the last 24 hours but I want to only see users who fail to login 5 or more times.

This is what I have so far:

source="secure" sshd "pam_ldap: error trying to bind as user" | top uid

How can I make it so it onlys shows 5 or more failed logins per user?

Thanks,

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You could filter the results of top like so:

... | top uid | where count >= 5

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You could filter the results of top like so:

... | top uid | where count >= 5
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robK123
Explorer

That worked perfectly thanks.

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