Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:37:45 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Paul Schmehl" <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sshd logging Message-ID: <29290.128.135.52.6.1500388665.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <B7D68041A26D18D97D24F8CA@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> References: <C96D90F644C8AD0486EB3C91@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20170717051638.GB2368@c720-r314251> <alpine.LRH.2.20.1707170636550.28890@sas1.nber.org> <B7D68041A26D18D97D24F8CA@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local>
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On Mon, July 17, 2017 6:35 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On July 17, 2017 at 6:38:00 AM -0400 Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> >>> El día domingo, julio 16, 2017 a las 10:34:42p. m. -0500, Paul Schmehl >>> escribió: >>> >>>> 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. >> I use sshguard (you may want to look also at sshguard-ipfw, sshguard-pf). ssh is not the only service sshguard can protect. Just one more option. Valeri > > 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. > > Paul Schmehl, Retired > As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions > are my own and not those of my employer. > ******************************************* > "It is as useless to argue with those who have > renounced the use of reason as to administer > medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson > "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very > intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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