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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 03:30:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: misc/9424: /etc/security does not recognise login failures
Message-ID:  <199901101130.DAA13119@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/9424; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: Charlie Root <root@cc.fh-lippe.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: misc/9424: /etc/security does not recognise login failures
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:36:48 +0100 (CET)

 Actually the `problem' is slightly different.
 
 It only parses the logfile for mutliple subsequent failures and not single
 failures. This patch will alter /etc/security to report all login failures.
 
 --- /etc/security.orig  Sun Jan 10 12:24:37 1999
 +++ /etc/security       Sun Jan 10 12:31:07 1999
 @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
  # show login failures
  separator
  echo "$host login failures:"
 +grep -i "login failure" $LOG/messages
  grep -i "login failures" $LOG/messages
  
  # show tcp_wrapper warning messages
 
 
 ---
 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven    A veil of smoke is what I am,
 asmodai(at)wxs.nl                         I wait and I wait...
 Network/Security Specialist      <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
 BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve     <http://www.freebsd.org>;

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