Need OpenSSH to logs users bad login attempts

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Thu Jan 13 21:36:51 EST 2005


Michael Selvesteen wrote:
>  Hello All,
> 
> We have a sensitive network where users authenticates through SSH. We
> support multiple authentications with respective to their groups . As
> a security concern we continue to monitor failed or bad login attempts
> of every user using lastb command, but SSH never logs the bad login
> attempts of the user like telnet does .  We would like to have this
> feature on SSH for every supported authentication including key based
> authentication like public key and host based authentications.

"LogLevel verbose" in sshd_config should do what you want.

-d




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