[plug] /var/log/secure reporting
Senectus .
senectus at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 14:25:13 WST 2005
On 8/8/05, Shannon Carver <Shannon.Carver at p-s-t.com.au> wrote:
> This is true. On my external SSH box at work, I get x,000's of
> connection attempts a day, from a whole range of IP's, with no apparent
> correlation between connect attempts, source address, time of attempt
> etc etc. There's nothing that can really be done about this, bar
> restricting the hosts able to connect to the box to only known IP's, and
> using secure passwords or keys to connect.
>
> What I'm saying is, preventing the problem from occurring the first
> place, is probably better, than having an motd which prints out 5 pages
> of failed login attempts each time you log in.
>
Not Failed.. I want the MoTD to show SUCCESSFUL Attempts.
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