questions about extra logging

Steve Lake steve.lake at raiden.net
Sat Feb 5 15:36:56 PST 2005


         Sorry it took so long getting back to you.  Actually, I looked in 
auth.log and it only shows failures for KDE logins, not successes.  I'm 
looking to log successes too.  Thanks.  (please reply directly to me as I 
don't subscribe to this list. ^_^

At 06:35 PM 2/3/05 +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
>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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