11-29-2005
I have updated my syslog.conf with the following auth.x entries (and cycled syslogd) :
auth.notice;auth.crit;auth.info /var/log/authlog
I see that login failure information is being captured, but the ID (or even a Generic ID) is NOT...
Nov 29 08:03:31 testBOX.com login: [ID 143248 auth.notice] Login failure on /dev/pts/2 from mybox.com
Nov 29 08:03:38 testBOX.com last message repeated 1 time
Nov 29 08:03:42 testBOX.com login: [ID 760094 auth.crit] REPEATED LOGIN FAILURES ON /dev/pts/2 FROM mybox.com
Nov 29 08:06:48 testBOX.com login: [ID 143248 auth.notice] Login failure on /dev/pts/2 from mybox.com
Nov 29 08:06:55 testBOX.com last message repeated 1 time
Nov 29 08:06:59 testBOX.com login: [ID 760094 auth.crit] REPEATED LOGIN FAILURES ON /dev/pts/2 FROM mybox.com
Nov 29 08:19:21 testBOX.com login: [ID 143248 auth.notice] Login failure on /dev/pts/2 from mybox.com
Nov 29 08:19:26 testBOX.com last message repeated 1 time
Nov 29 08:19:30 testBOX.com login: [ID 760094 auth.crit] REPEATED LOGIN FAILURES ON /dev/pts/2 FROM mybox.com
Also, does anyone know where I can get a list of valid facilities?
wondering what other options are out there...
thanks
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wtmps(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual wtmps(4)
NAME
wtmps, btmps - user login information
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
and hold user and accounting information for such commands as and (see last(1), who(1), write(1), and login(1)).
File contains bad login entries for each invalid logon attempt. File contains a record for all logins and logouts apart from accounting
records. These files contain structure, the key elements of the structure are given below:
char ut_user[] User login name
char ut_id[] Unique Id to distinguish an entry
char ut_line[] Device name
pid_t ut_pid Process Id
short ut_type Type of Entry
struct ut_exit The exit status of a process
struct timeval ut_tv Time entry was made
char ut_host[] Host name, if remote
uint8_t ut_addr[] Internet Address of the Host,
if remote
short ut_addr_type Flag to identify type of address
in ut_addr
#define WTMPS_FILE "/var/adm/wtmps"
#define BTMPS_FILE "/var/adm/btmps"
Note that and tend to grow without bound, and should be checked regularly. Information that is no longer useful should be removed periodi-
cally to prevent the file from becoming too large. Also note that and are not created by the programs that maintain them. Thus, if these
files are removed, login record-keeping is turned off.
AUTHOR
and were developed by Hewlett-Packard Company.
FILES
SEE ALSO
last(1), login(1), who(1), write(1), acctcon(1M), fwtmp(1M), wtmpfix(1M), getuts(3C).
wtmps(4)