Wondering just how many failed authentication attempts your OSX machine has been getting? Try…
sudo grep "failed to auth" /var/log/secure.log | sed "s/^.*user \(.*\) for.*$/\1/" | sort | uniq -c
…and you’ll see something like…
14 abpusr01-u 1 ben 1 ben-u 2 billy 3 black 2 blow 2 bogdan 3 cosmin 19 cyrus 12 daemon ... 30 mysql 30 nobody 7 patrick 6 postfix 1530 root ... 24 www
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