[plug] /var/log/secure reporting

[Shannon Carver]

Ah, ok.. I got that wrong.  

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From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Senectus .
Sent: Monday, 8 August 2005 2:25 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] /var/log/secure reporting

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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