ports/126867: security/sshguard-pf 1.1 fails to detect attempted logins

[Michael]

The following reply was made to PR ports/126867; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael <freebsdports at bindone.de>
To: Mij <mij at bitchx.it>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/126867: security/sshguard-pf 1.1 fails to detect attempted
 logins
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:04:11 +0200

 No, I'm talking about auth.log. Seriously.
 What about trying it on your own on a fresh install?
 
 Mij wrote:
 > 
 > On 5 Sep 2008, at 17:08, Michael wrote:
 > 
 >> Plain vanilla standard FreeBSD install (6.3-RELEASE and 7.0-RELEASE). 
 >> There is no more context, the system logs only a single line:
 >>
 >> Sep  5 17:06:17 server sshd[71127]: error: PAM: authentication error 
 >> for xyz from 10.1.1.1
 >>
 >> This is basically what sshguard 1.0 was looking for.
 >> What's your uname -a?
 >>
 >> Also, by the way, because there is only one line of log, as a bonus 
 >> syslogd agregates the error messages (last line repeated n times) 
 >> which is something sshguard also doesn't handle.
 > 
 > The fact you say there is only a single line and "the system logs" make 
 > me think you're considering /var/log/messages,
 > there authentication messages do not appear. What about 
 > /var/log/auth.log (or any other destination you set for auth.info)?
 > 
 > 
 >>
 >>
 >> Mij wrote:
 >>> The PAM log entry you report follows a failed login attempt, but in 
 >>> turn should be followed by
 >>> SSHD's own log entry, that looks like
 >>> Sep  4 20:25:46 voodoo sshd[19972]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam 
 >>> for invalid user usrn from 1.2.3.4 port 51196 ssh2
 >>> this latter is what sshguard is sensitive to.
 >>> If you examine the context around that line in your auth.log, what 
 >>> does it look like?
 >>
 >