Periodic security

[Doug White]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Ryan Sommers wrote:

> Slight modification to the loginfail script for periodics. This will catch
> sshd, proftpd and su errors, as well as other programs, better.

The drawback to this is that it will log multiple messages from ssh since
it prints a couple of 'illegal' lines before the "failed password for
illegal user ...' line.  It'd be nice to filter those down somewhat.

>
> --- 800.loginfail       Mon Aug 30 21:50:50 2004
> +++ 800.loginfail       Mon Aug 30 21:51:53 2004
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
>      [Yy][Ee][Ss])
>         echo ""
>         echo "${host} login failures:"
> -       n=$(catmsgs | grep -ia "^$yesterday.*fail" |
> +       n=$(catmsgs | egrep -ia "^$yesterday.*(fail|invalid|bad|illegal)" |
>             tee /dev/stderr | wc -l)
>         [ $n -gt 0 ] && rc=1 || rc=0;;
>      *) rc=0;;
>
>

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