sshd logging

[Paul Schmehl]

--On July 17, 2017 at 6:38:00 AM -0400 Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> 
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Matthias Apitz wrote:
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>> El día domingo, julio 16, 2017 a las 10:34:42p. m. -0500, Paul Schmehl
>> escribió:
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>>> Is there a way to get sshd to only log successful logins?
>>
>> What about using ipf(8)?
>
> denyhosts or fail2ban would be easier. You'd still get a few lines in the
> logs, but only a few.
>

Thanks, Dan. I'll take a look.

I've never understood why logging routinely records every failed 
interaction. I suppose it's because summarizing it would take more 
processing plus some sort of database. Seriously though, why should I care 
about failed logins? It's the successful ones that I need to know about.

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