questions about extra logging

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Thu Feb 3 09:34:54 PST 2005


On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:33:45AM -0500, Steve Lake wrote:

> I'm curious of something.  I think I've got a fellow co-worker who may
> be trying to break into my workstation and I need some help.  

> I know kde logs whenever a failed login attempt occurs if the screen
> is locked and sends that in the daily logs, but it doesn't log
> successes.  IE successfully loging into KDE via the password box when
> the screensaver/blank screen is running.  I'd like to log ALL
> attempts, success, failure or otherwise, and have that included in my
> daily log reports so that I know if they did in fact get in at any one
> point when I wasn't there.  

The logfile /var/log/auth.log does contain _all_ logins, AFAIK.

Roland
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