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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Severity Level in syslog.conf Post 11738 by Neo on Tuesday 11th of December 2001 03:50:29 PM
Old 12-11-2001
As I recall, telnetd and in.telnetd (your example) uses /bin/login to manage user logins. There is a configuration file for /bin/login called login.defs :

Quote:

NAME
/etc/login.defs - Login configuration

DESCRIPTION
The /etc/login.defs file defines the site-specific config-
uration for the shadow login suite. This file is
required. Absence of this file will not prevent system
operation, but will probably result in undesirable opera-
tion.

This file is a readable text file, each line of the file
describing one configuration parameter. The lines consist
of a configuration name and value, seperated by whites-
pace. Blank lines and comment lines are ignored. Com-
ments are introduced with a `#' pound sign and the pound
sign must be the first non-white character of the line.

Parameter values may be of four types: strings, booleans,
numbers, and long numbers. A string is comprised of any
printable characters. A boolean should be either the
and in the man page, the configuration for the logging behavior of /bin/login is configured (just a few examples):

Quote:
FAILLOG_ENAB (boolean)
If yes then login failures will be accumulated in
/var/log/faillog in a faillog(8) format.

FAIL_DELAY (number)
Delay time in seconds after each failed login
attempt.
Does this help, or were you looking for more generic syslog.conf information not related to login and telnetd?
 

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warn.conf(4)							   File Formats 						      warn.conf(4)

NAME
warn.conf - Kerberos warning configuration file SYNOPSIS
/etc/krb5/warn.conf DESCRIPTION
The warn.conf file contains configuration information specifying how users will be warned by the ktkt_warnd daemon about ticket expiration on a Kerberos client. Credential expiration warnings are sent, by means of syslog, to auth.notice. All other warning messages are sent to daemon.notice. Each Kerberos client host must have a warn.conf file in order for users on that host to get Kerberos warnings from the client. Entries in the warn.conf file must have the following format: principal syslog | terminal | mail time [email_address] principal Specifies the principal name to be warned. The asterisk (*) wildcard can be used to specify groups of principals. syslog Sends the warnings to the system's syslog. Depending on the /etc/syslog.conf file, syslog entries are written to the /var/adm/messages file and/or displayed on the terminal. terminal Sends the warnings to display on the terminal. mail Sends the warnings as email to the address specified by email_address. time Specifies how much time before the TGT expires when a warning should be sent. The default time value is seconds, but you can specify h (hours) and m (minutes) after the number to specify other time values. email_address Specifies the email address at which to send the warnings. This field must be specified only with the mail field. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Specifying warnings The following warn.conf entry * syslog 5m specifies that warnings will be sent to the syslog five minutes before the expiration of the TGT for all principals. The form of the mes- sage is: jdb@ACME.COM: your kerberos credentials expire in 5 minutes FILES
/usr/lib/krb5/ktkt_warnd Kerberos warning daemon SEE ALSO
ktkt_warnd(1M), syslog.conf(4), SEAM(5) SunOS 5.10 22 Apr 2003 warn.conf(4)
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