openssh logging of remote commands in syslog
Kevin Taylor
ktaylor at eosdata.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Mar 8 09:23:45 EST 2001
Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kevin Taylor wrote:
>
> >
> > Another wonderful email from me. :)
> >
> > The ssh.com version of ssh will log information on the remotely executed
> > command in the syslog:
> >
> > Mar 7 15:29:20 6D:marx sshd[21346]: log: executing remote command as
> > root: ls
> >
> > It seems that openssh doesn't do that by default. If you put the server
> > in debug mode you'll see the command, but a lot of extra stuff that you
> > don't want to see.
>
> IMO, this kind of logging can be rather intrusive..
>
Well, maybe it can be something added to a different log level.
Something that is not as severe as debug, so it can be set to be logged
or not....but also not get gobs of info that lower log levels provide
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